On 2/8/07, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
On 8-Feb-2007, Shai Ayal wrote:
| I think it might be a good thing to introduce these rather drastic changes.
| This will enable us to get feedback and improve the situation. I know that
| currently the stable version is "obsolete" and the development version is
| the recommended install, but maybe it's time to change it.
| I did not follow the development closely enough to know whether non-graphics
| related bugs that were fixed are very important.
I think some were. And of course if it is a bug you reported, you
will probably think it is important.
of course !
| If this is the case, maybe
| release 2.9.10 w/o graphics changes
I think this would be somewhat difficult to do at this point. Also,
it would be leaving in the long-standing bugs like not being able to
print subplots.
Well then, there is no dilema - maybe just release ti with a warning like "this version had major graphics changes -- use with care". I think the benifit of a release (mainly a lot of testers) is huge.
| On a more ground to earth theme -- one of the best features gnuplot has
| going for it is the ability for off-screen rendering (
e.g. using without a
| x11 terminal). I am not sure matlab has this feature at all. So we need to
| define how to do this in octave. It would be a shame to loose this feature.
| My questions:
| 1) If it is possible in matlab. how is it done?
| 2) If not, how will we implement it?
What do you mwan by off-screen rendering? Do you mean plotting
directly to some other output device like a PNG file? If so, then I
think the Matlab way is to do something like this:
figure ('visible', 'off');
plot (x, y);
print -deps foo.eps
Hmm.. I idin't know that (stopped using matlab 6 years ago). So, I think this should be high on the priority list of which feature to implement
jwe