Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha <at> cs.nyu.edu> writes: > > On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Tony Richardson wrote: > > > I often use octave and do no plotting at all. Octave starts and runs > > fine if gnuplot isn't installed. (It complains about not being able > > to find gnuplot when the plot command is used.) Should there really > > be a dependency if only a subset of features requires a package? > > > > I'd prefer to see gnuplot removed from the octave dependency list. > > Of course then you'd have to deal with all the posts saying that > > the plot command in octave is broken. So I don't know what the best > > approach would be. How do others feel? > > Actually, a viable solution for this was already proposed by John W Eaton > in <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-12/msg00283.html>. Since octave adds > other directories to the path before it runs, it's possible to create a > gnuplot wrapper that uses the real gnuplot if present and exits with a > reasonable error message otherwise. > > Just to clarify, the reason I thought it was a hack was that it was an > *octave-forge* script dealing with a *gnuplot* bug. I don't think the > mechanism itself is in any way hacky. > Igor
I don't follow. I'm asking for the gnuplot requirement for octave to be dropped from setup.ini so that when I install octave all of the X11 stuff (through a gnuplot dependency) isn't installed by default. It's not that I can't work around the problem, I can. Perhaps a better way to handle it, as you suggested in another message regarding tetex-bin, is to add a comment in the README about installing cygwin/X11/gnuplot and/or setting up Windows-native gnuplot if you want to do plotting with octave. Tony I can. The -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
