Re: [Plplot-devel] Various patches

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2006-05-22 10:58-0600 Orion Poplawski wrote:

> Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
>> * Orion Poplawski <or...@co...> [2006-05-09 11:45]:
>> 
>>> plplot-5.5.3-matwrap.patch:
>>> 
>>> - patches the included matwrap to match gcc/.*/include rather than 
>>> gcc-lib/.*/include for system includes.  I suppose a more generic fix 
>>> would match both.
>> 
>> I agree with this patch.  BTW, the Debian package has the same patch
>> applied.
>> 
>>> - removes the check for a system installed matwap.  I could probably 
>>> drop this since the Fedora build system will certainly not provide
>>> matwrap.
>> 
>> Although the matwrap project is certainly dead upstream, I do not see the
>> interest of applying this patch.  Furthermore, the changes are done in
>> configure, instead of configure.ac, waht makes the patch impossible to be
>> applied to the CVS sources.
>> 
>>> plplot-5.5.3-octave.patch:
>>> 
>>> - Updates the octave version check to allow for 2.X (X > 1) and X. (X>2) 
>>> versions to be okay.
>> 
>> I agree with this patch.
>> 
>
> It does not look like either of these have been applied to 5.6.1_RC1.

I am sorry these changes did not get into 5.6.1_RC1, but we pretty much
leave octave changes up to Rafael since he is the only one that understands
that area.  Rafael, if you still think these two patches are a good idea for
5.6.1 please go ahead and commit them to CVS.

Alan
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