Plotting difference Win-XP vs. Linux



On 11/30/06, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/30/06, Andrej Vodopivec <andrej.vodopivec at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This is because maxima does not use pipes to communicate with gnuplot.
> > I wrote a patch for plot.lisp which fixes this
> > (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mathematics.maxima.general/12271/)
>
> Makes sense to me -- please commit the patch.
>
> > but there was no reply from the list and I stopped working on it.
>
> Sorry that I didn't respond sooner. I think it's a good idea.

The patch is against an older version of plot.lisp - I don't think it
applies to current cvs without conflicts. It also does not work very
well on Windows. I would rather rewrite the patch so that there is the
current gnuplot driver and gnuplot_pipes driver. The current gnuplot
driver should be the default for windows and gnuplot_pipes for
everything else. I propose we put that in the release after 5.11.0.

Andrej