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.
Allin