[Plplot-devel] Standard example results from octave.

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

To Joao and Brian:

With all these proposed changes in the octave demos, please feel free to
change test/test_octave.sh as well.  That script was my poor attempt to
follow the octave instructions (now just for the standard x examples because
the p examples don't work on older octave versions). However, I am
completely unfamiliar with octave so I am sure someone with familiarity with
octave could easily clean up that script.

Also note if you systematically compare the x??o.ps octave results you get
from running ./plplot-test.sh (which invokes test_octave.sh) with the
corresponding x??c.ps C results, there are a fair number of differences. On
my computer there is exact agreement for examples 2, 6, 7, 10, 12, and 18;
but disagreement for examples 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 16. For the
ones that disagree, I don't know whether this is just some remaining
inconsistency (choice of colour or size or whatever) between the octave
script for any given standard example and how the rest of the interfaces (c,
c++, f77, python, java, and tcl) implement that same example or a real
problem with the way the octave interface to PLplot is implemented. Whatever
the source of the problem, it would be nice to get it cleaned up and have
all octave standard example results agree with the corresponding results
from all the rest of the interfaces.

"would be nice" here means it is not release critical, but it is something
to keep in mind if you are changing the examples in any case

Alan
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