Re: [Plplot-devel] Support only octave > 3.0 ?

[Andrew R. <and...@us...>]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:37:01AM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote:
> On 2009-01-19 10:12-0000 Andrew Ross wrote:
> 
> >
> > We've said that we will drop support for octave 2.1.x from this release.
> 
> Actually, as stated in README.release we dropped support for 2.1.x in the
> 5.9.1 release, but I wanted to leave the notice in for this release and
> subsequent ones up to and including our next stable release for those
> users who just skip from one stable release to the next or skip some
> of the development releases.
> 
> > Are people really happy for me to go and remove the legacy code which is
> > in place to support this? This would make life easier and also remove
> > some slightly irritating warnings for octave 3.0. Octave 3.0 seems
> > pretty stable now and all distributions for the last year or so that I
> > have been coming with it. In general I don't like removing backwards
> > compatibility, but we have announced that we will do this.
> 
> Go for it.  Cruft removal is a good thing to do, and besides the octave
> download page doesn't even give directions for downloading 2.1.x any
> more.

Done. I've also fixed automatic replotting which has always previously
been broken with octave 3.0. If octave < 2.9 is installed, then cmake
will now disable the bindings.

Andrew