Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of our octave binding and examples for version 4.4.0 of octave

[Alan W. I. <Ala...@gm...>]

On 2018-07-31 21:10-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> To Orion and Arjen:
>
> As of
> <https://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/plplot/ci/d7310aa9864ce1676177f39323c9daf593ae0765/>
> our octave binding and all examples/octave/x??c.m examples give a
> perfect PostScript difference report for Octave 4.4.0 for Debian
> Buster == Debian Testing.  Please do equivalent checks (i.e., by
> simply building the test_noninteractive target in the build tree) for
> Cygwin, MinGW-w64/MSYS2, and Fedora to check all is well on platforms
> other than Debian Buster.  I emphasize build-tree checks because
> install-tree checks currently won't work [....]

That request for testing help still applies, but I can now report (see
the log for commit 391ec0ad0 for the details) that I have been able to
replace the cellstr-based workaround with an actual fix for the issue
which should work for late octave-3 as well as all versions of
octave-4.

Alan
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