On 2012-01-16 14:46-0700 Orion Poplawski wrote: > - split has now be removed from octave in favor of strsplit: > > 6: error: `split' undefined near line 3 column 5 > > I believe this has been raised before but was decided to stay with split at > the time for octave 3.0 support.
Thanks for bringing this up, Orion. The rest of this is primarily to Andrew. Hi Andrew: Out of curiosity I looked up that discussion, and the 2010-07-26 conclusion by you was "strsplit was only introduced in octave3.2 so I do not (yet) want to switch to it. Octave 3.0 is still widely used. Everything else in plplot just requires 3.0." Of course, now is almost a year and a half later, and I therefore think now would be a good time (especially since split is causing obvious problems for the most recent octave release) for you to replace split with strsplit and mention in the release notes that the minimum version of octave we now support is 3.2. >From what Orion says, EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) users apparently only have access to Octave 3.0, and I assume that most enterprise distros also have similar Octave version constraints. But I don't think we have to be too concerned about such cases since older PLplot versions should satisfy most "enterprise" needs. Furthermore, with regard to "modern" (i.e., non-enterprise) distros, probably Debian stable is the oldest of those, and it installs Octave 3.2.4-8 where split was already deprecated in favour of strsplit. 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); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
