Stavros Macrakis writes:
> On 1/28/07, Vadim V. Zhytnikov <vvzhy at mail.ru> wrote:
>> > I suppose that instead of removing it completely, we could move it and
>> > its documentation to share/contrib (unsupported contributed code) so
>> > that if someone needs it someday (e.g. when gnuplot is not available
>> > for whatever reason), it's easy to get at.
>> >
>>
>> There is nice directory /archive in Maxima CVS.
>> This is the right place.
>
> So you think it shouldn't be part of the standard distribution, even
> as an unsupported feature like other things in contrib?
>
>
Well, maybe you are right and contrib is the better place.
The fact that this code doesn't rely on any external
programs makes it special. But we should
clearly state in documentation that
1) gnuplot is preferable way for ps creation
2) plot2d_ps can be used if gnuplot unavailable
3) it is in share and requires load()
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Vadim V. Zhytnikov
<vvzhy at mail.ru>
<vvzhy at netorn.ru>