Re: Should 4.1 keep supporting pre-4.0 syntax?

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Petr Mikulik wrote:

> > > Gnuplot version cycle is at about 5 years.
> >
> > Where did you pick up that number?
> 
> Because that did happen. Releasing 3.7 has taken 5 years, and the same for
> 4.0 (1999 -- 2004).

That was pure coincidence.  

> > least roughly up to date, is.  If they want to use bleeding-edge gnuplot
> > without taking proper care: fine, let them cut themselves.  Might teach
> > them a lesson.

> Them is for example me, or Daniel -- we managed to get imagegp.m to work
> fine with Octave. Not having the compatibility would be a stop-point for
> using both nice apps.

No it wouldn't.  It would *only* mean that imagegp.m has to use a gnuplot
4.0 executable for as long as nobody gets round to teaching it to use
'unset' instead of 'set no...'.  Which I honestly can't believe to be
all that complicated.

At the risk of sounding like my own echo: 4.1 is strictly work-in-progress
code at this time.  Nobody in their right mind should even think of using
this in production environments unless they're willing to update all other
parts equally quickly as gnuplot.

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.