Hi Orion: Thanks for all that additional octave information, especially the information about the large differences between 2.9.9 and 2.9.14.
I have some comments and questions in response to what you said. Does latest Fedora have an octave 2.1.x package available? We currently support that version and if that version of octave were available presumably some Fedora users would still be using it and could take advantage of PLplot. That is extremely good news that 2.9.14 is so close to 3.0, and I hope this encourages Andrew to make an octave interface corresponding to that version. What 2.9.x versions are available for latest Fedora? If only octave 2.9.9 is available, then probably the best thing to do is to continue with your patch for 2.9.9 for fedora but not propagate that to upstream PLplot (since I don't think we want to have three different octave interfaces). If octave testing (2.9.14) is available for latest Fedora, that would be an additional encouragement for Andrew to work on an interface corresponding to 2.9.14. This shows I have been playing with PLplot for too many years, but I remember when 2.0.x was the stable version of octave and 2.1.x was cutting edge. :-) 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. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
