[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#453126: Bug#453126: Bug#453126: octplot: doesn't work at all

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2007-11-27 20:12]:

> Am Dienstag, den 27.11.2007, 08:18 -0700 schrieb Wesley J. Landaker:
> > Subject: octplot: doesn't work at all
> > Package: octplot
> > Version: 0.4.0-3
> > Severity: grave
> > Justification: renders package unusable
> > 
> > octplot doesn't work at all.
> > 
> >   1) It doesn't automatically get into octave's path, so you have to use 
> > addpath.
> > 
> >   2) Doing that doesn't help, because it doesn't work with octave2.9, even 
> > though that's what version the package depends on.
> 
> Well, there's a reason for 1), namely 2). The reason that there's no new
> version in Debian is that there's no new version from upstream. Octave
> changed internals and Octplot's author is busy with Octave itself. So,
> Octplot's development is currently frozen:
> 
> http://www.nabble.com/Plotting-problem-Octave-2.9.13-tf4511610.html#a12898162
> 
> > Basically, it's absolutely broken currently, which is a shame.
> 
> I'm pretty sure Shai (Octplot's author) won't refuse any offer to help.

Thomas is right about the stopped upstream development of octplot, but
version 0.4.0 does seem to compile and run correctly against octave2.9
2.9.17.  I will soon upload a fixed package.

-- 
Rafael