Re: [Plplot-devel] octave is broken by recent changes

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

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> The localoctfiledir has been introduced in octave 2.1.  Sorry for not
> testing my changes with Octave 2.0.  IMHO, we should not insist in
> supporting Octave 2.0.  The 2.1 series is fully stable and I frequently hear
> in of Octave users mailing lists that 2.0 should be abandoned.

I just checked and RH7.3 and 8.0 use octave 2.1, but Debian woody does not.
Although that is my distribution, I don't care since supporting old versions
is often more trouble than it is worth.  If we decide not to support octave
2.0, then we should put in a configuration test for octave version.  Debian
woody tarball users (probably a pretty small group of users) who want octave
can always download the latest version.

>
> However, I will try to find a fix to have the configuration working with
> Octave 2.0 (here we go: more cruft in confiugre.ac ...)

I would wait to see what Joao says before you make these changes.  He may
have changed his mind by now about supporting 2.0, and I certainly don't
mind if we insist on 2.1 by the appropriate octave version test in our
configuration.

Alan
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