From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2004-06-13 15:50:45
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On 2004-06-13 13:56+0200 Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > * Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> [2004-06-13 00:03]: > >> In the octave case there was a segfault >> with the following error message: >> >> plsdev: Must be called before plinit. >> panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself... >> >> Rafael, do you confirm this octave front-end problem for your Debian testing >> distro? Is this version (2.1.57) of octave is a recommended version then it >> would probably be worthwhile to get PLplot CVS HEAD working for this version >> of octave. Is that simply a matter of moving your Debian plplot octave >> interface patches to plplot CVS HEAD? > > This has been discussed in plplot-devel. Applying the Debian-specific > patches to CVS HEAD will make the Octave bindings for PLplot work with > version 2.1.57 (like in the latest octave-plplot Debian package). However, > they may break for previous versions of Octave. I think we should rediscuss this. http://www.octave.org/download.html clearly distinguishes between the various versions of octave that you can download at the present time. A new innovation there is they recommend a stable, testing, and development version. The testing version is the one recommended for most users. Therefore, I think an excellent policy for us should be to maintain the high-level octave interface to PLplot so that the testing version is supported. "testing" currently is 2.1.57 (consistent with John Eaton's post that 2.1.57 is the "recommended" version now), and there is no mention on that page of 2.1.50 (the previous "recommended" version). Thus, I think Rafael's 2.1.57 changes should be brought to CVS HEAD (with the addition of a high-level interface version check for 2.1.57), and we should not worry a bit about incompatibilities with 2.1.50. Of course, if such incompatibilities exist, the downside of that policy is that users of distros that are still stuck at 2.1.50 will be forced to use older versions of PLplot or else update their octave, but so long as the high-level version check for 2.1.57 is there with an appropriate message, I don't think they have much to complain about. Joao, do you agree it is time to move to 2.1.57? Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin email: ir...@be... phone: 250-727-2902 Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org), the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net), the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net), and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ |