From maintainers-request at octave dot org Fri Apr 15 12:46:42 2005
Subject: Re: Legend.m (Was: Alternative to gset nokey;)
From: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <dasergatskov at gmail dot com>
To: Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee dot org>
CC: octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers at octave dot org>,         octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 11:43:28 -0600

Quentin Spencer wrote:
> Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
> 
>> Please find attached a version of legend.m modified to
>> use new __gnuplot_... interface.
>> Also attached is the diff against current (2005-04-15)
>> version from cvs.
> 
> 
> I could check this into CVS, but this will break backward compatibility 
> with older versions of octave. Are we willing to do that? Do we want to 
> branch the CVS as has been done with octave? There are a lot of 
> functions in octave-forge that need this kind of work ("grep -r gset *" 
> returns a list too long to count, though I'm sure legend is by far the 
> most widely used function affected by this).
> 

I have changed some time ago all octave-forge plot utils to use new
interface. The diff is at:

  ftp://coffee.phys.unm.edu/pub/dima/octave/plot.diff.bz2

There are few problems with the diff (in particular with legend.m,
that is why I posted this update). I am am about to do an updated
diff (in particular I am changing __gnuplot_set__ to __gnuplot_raw__
wherever it possible), but the existing one is reasonable already.

Dmitri.
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