Sorry for my silence over the last couple of weeks, but I've been snowed under at work.
Plplot works fine with all 2.1.xx versions of octave I have tried. It certainly works fine with 2.1.73 on Ubuntu feisty. It does not work on octave 2.9.x. I've tried 2.9.9 on Ubuntu feisty. This is a different version to that tested by other users. More worryingly I seem to have different errors to other reports on the list. Various things seem to have changed which will require rewriting some of the octave parts of the bindings. I have been pondering the best way of doing this in a compatible manner. It might be cleanest to have different versions of the bindings depending on the octave version. I am sure I can sort this, but I'm not sure of the timeframe. It's personally important to me, so I will try to devote some time to it. How long are we looking at until the release? There is also a psttf.c issue Alan reported to me recently which I would like to look into before the release. Andrew On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 03:36:58PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > Andrew (Ross) and Hazen, there are some questions for you below. > > To help with the process of nailing down the date of the stable release, I > thought it would be worthwhile to summarize the PLplot issues that have > recently been mentioned on list. > > 1. Second-page problem for gd.c where the letters became blurry and > certain lines completely disappeared. > > 2. plptex3 issue with the interpretation of the sign of the just parameter > for Hershey fonts (but modern fonts are fine). Shown by second and > third pages of example 28 when using Hershey fonts. > > 3. plptex3 transformation issues (shown by first page of example 28). > > 4. replace -dev png with -dev pngcairo in script to generate website > examples. > > 5. Incompatibilities between recent versions of octave and our octave > interface. > > 6. Bounding box issues with the cairo devices. > > 7. More Ada examples. > > Here are my comments/questions about each of these issues. > > 1. Andrew (Roach) has fixed this issue. > > 2. and 3. Hazen is looking at these issues. Hazen, once you are finished > with that evaluation could you comment on what you think is possible before > the stable release? > > 4. I will take responsibility for this issue but, Hazen, I would like you to > test my changes fairly soon after I make then so please get in touch off > list about a mutually convenient day for working on this issue. > > 5. The octave interface works fine for me on Debian sarge (oldstable) with > octave 2.1.69. I don't know whether it works for the version 2.1.73-13 of > octave (which is part of Debian stable, testing, and unstable versions) and > various 2.9.x versions of octave on Debian stable, testing, and unstable. > >From Orion's Fedora results I assume 2.9.x is currently problematic on all > Debian versions. Andrew (Ross), since you are our octave expert could you > comment on the octave version problem and the best way you think we should > solve it? This is fairly urgent because PLplot is the only free software > plotting package available for octave. (There is also gnuplot still > available in Debian, but it's long-term feature in Debian is in doubt > because the developers there are beginning to realize that gnuplot is not > free software.) > > 6. Hazen and I have discussed a possible solution for this issue, but I have > no time to work on that solution before the release. Also, delay/benign > neglect is probably a good strategy in this case because there is a > possibility of a new API in cairo which will make this issue much easier to > deal with. > > 7. I have recently committed some new Ada examples by Jerry, but my > understanding is he may be able to implement even more Ada examples > depending on his time constraints and exactly when the stable release > occurs. > > To summarize the above, there are still some on-going issues that have been > brought up recently on the list, but whether they are resolved or not before > the stable release is completely up to the individuals involved (except for > issue 1 which has been fixed and issue 4 where I have firm plans to deal > with it). > > Please comment if there is anything I missed or you have an update on > what you would like to do before the stable release. > > Alan > __________________________ > Alan W. Irwin > > Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, > University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). > > Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation > for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software > package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of > Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project > (lbproject.sf.net). > __________________________ > > Linux-powered Science > __________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. 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