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

[Thomas Weber]

Am Dienstag, den 27.11.2007, 23:05 +0100 schrieb 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.

Does "sombrero(41)" work for you then? plot() seems to work, imagesc()
doesn't. 

	Thomas