On 2012-01-27 14:59-0500 Chris Marshall wrote: > 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?
Hi Chris: I think split is the way we should go since it doesn't compromise our current Octave 3.2.4 support and removes a roadblock for later Octave versions where the long-deprecated strsplit is no longer available. Also, 3.2.4 is already pretty old; 3.4.3 (!) is the recommended stable version of octave according to http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html, and Orion is already using 3.6.0! Thus, our support is already pretty far behind the recommended version and way behind Orion's cutting-edge version. The problem is you are asking us to stand pat so that _we might_ (since we have no comprehensive testing for older Octave platforms) be able to support versions of Octave older than 3.2.4, rather than making a simple change that is compatible with 3.2.4 and which should allow us to support the Octave recommended version and from what Orion reports maybe even the cutting edge version as well. In sum, my attitude is I am happy that we have been able to support Octave 3.2.4 pretty well considering our limited Octave resources, and I don't really trust versions of Octave earlier than 3.2.4 since we are unable to do comprehensive tests of such platforms any longer. (For example, my Debian Squeeze platform provides octave 3.2.4 but no version earlier than that.) In addition, if a small change like moving from strsplit to split also allows us to support everything up to Orion's cutting-edge Octave-3.6.0 that would be a tremendous bonus. After all, Orion has a long track record of testing PLplot for cutting-edge Fedora platforms for us, and we should continue to encourage that cutting-edge testing whenever possible. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
