Is there some reason that split cannot be used for Octave releases and strsplit for more recent ones rather than abandoning support for older Octaves?
--Chris On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Orion Poplawski <or...@cora.nwra.com> wrote: > On 01/16/2012 06:25 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> On 2012-01-16 14:46-0700 Orion Poplawski wrote: >> >>> - split has now be removed from octave in favor of strsplit: >>> >>> 6: error: `split' undefined near line 3 column 5 >>> >>> I believe this has been raised before but was decided to stay with split at >>> the time for octave 3.0 support. >> >> Thanks for bringing this up, Orion. The rest of this is primarily >> to Andrew. >> >> Hi Andrew: >> >> Out of curiosity I looked up that discussion, and the 2010-07-26 >> conclusion by you was >> >> "strsplit was only introduced in octave3.2 so I do not (yet) want to >> switch to it. Octave 3.0 is still widely used. Everything else in >> plplot just requires 3.0." >> >> Of course, now is almost a year and a half later, and I therefore >> think now would be a good time (especially since split is causing >> obvious problems for the most recent octave release) for you to >> replace split with strsplit and mention in the release notes that the >> minimum version of octave we now support is 3.2. >> >>> From what Orion says, EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) users >> apparently only have access to Octave 3.0, and I assume that most >> enterprise distros also have similar Octave version constraints. But I >> don't think we have to be too concerned about such cases since older >> PLplot versions should satisfy most "enterprise" needs. Furthermore, >> with regard to "modern" (i.e., non-enterprise) distros, probably >> Debian stable is the oldest of those, and it installs Octave 3.2.4-8 >> where split was already deprecated in favour of strsplit. > > Could this get addressed soon? plplot currently cannot be rebuilt for octave > 3.6.0 in Fedora rawhide. > > Thanks! > > > -- > Orion Poplawski > Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 > NWRA, Boulder Office FAX: 303-415-9702 > 3380 Mitchell Lane or...@cora.nwra.com > Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.cora.nwra.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Try before you buy = See our experts in action! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 > _______________________________________________ > Plplot-devel mailing list > Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
