Re: Another FLTK/gnuplot divergence

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 09:26:42 -0700, Rik wrote:
> I take your point, although automated builds of tarballs (such as for a
> downstream package maintainer like Debian) would still work in all cases
> because the images are shipped with the code.

True, unless a file is patched, deleted, or touched to force a
rebuild, intentionally or otherwise.

> It would only be an
> automated build server like Hydra, which is operating directly from the
> Mercurial sources, that would have a problem.

Yeah that's the case I thought of first. It could also be any
developer or user working from mercurial that builds with some kind of
automated background script, works on a headless server, or over an
SSH tunnel with no X.

The best policy is to not assume a display until the user specifically
requests a plot, and keep gnuplot for building the docs until we have
native plotting that can render offscreen.

-- 
mike