[Gretl-devel] dashed lines [was: Re: point size in gnuplot]
Am 28.01.2016 um 22:02 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
On Thu, 28 Jan 2016, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jan 2016, Sven Schreiber wrote:
>
>> My suggestion would be to switch to gnuplot v5 as soon as all these
>> stable releases have prebuilt packages available, where an official
>> backport would be good enough IMHO. Admittedly that might mean problems
>> for users who want to keep using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, for example. But you
>> wouldn't want to wait until 2019 or so when that is offically retired.
>
> There's the non-deb world to monitor too. Fedora etc, plus Arch, SUSE
> and so on. (BSD is dead anyway ;) )
Fedora and Arch are on board with gnuplot 5, and I think also SUSE.
I learned (again?) that dashed lines seem to be much better handled in
gnuplot v5. IMHO yet another reason to push for the switch.
The situation on Ubuntu appears better than I thought:
"gnuplot5
vivid (math): version 5 [universe] 5.0.0~rc+dfsg2-1: all
wily (math): version 5 [universe] 5.0.1+dfsg1-3: all
xenial (math): version 5 [universe] 5.0.3+dfsg2-1: all
"
As 'vivid' is 15.04, next month it will be one year when gnuplot 5 is
easily available. Version 16.04 will be a LTS release for those people
that do not want to upgrade often (which I absolutely understand). I
also understand that people wait a month or two before upgrading their
distro, but IMHO switching to gnuplot 5 for gretl in June 2016 would not
be a major problem. (A minor problem it would be anyway I guess, since
things have to be adjusted of course.)
cheers,
sven