Vladimir Titov wrote:
>>>>>>  On Wed, 5 May 2010, Oleg Sadov wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 10:18:06 -0500
>>>>>>>  From: Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>>>  To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>>>  Subject: gnuplot42 in SL 5.5
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Hi All,
>>>>>>>  I haven't seen any conflicts yet.  How do people feel about putting
>>>>>>>  gnuplot42 in SL 5.5?
>>>>>>>  I give it a thumbs up, but I wanted to know how others feel before
>>>>>>>  putting it in.
>>>>>>>
> 
> There are some small differences between 4.0 and 4.2 version,
> but I don't see why we should use old version.
> 
> However, now the newest version exists, gnuplot-4.4 (see
> ftp://ftp.linux-ink.ru/pub/SLCE/5rolling/testing/{SRPMS,i386}/gnuplot/*.rpm).
> Some bugs are fixed, some terminals are added,
> some new features are released. Why we have to wait a while
> before using this version? A few useful applications
> use gnuplot as graphical tool, for example octave, maxima etc.
> Gnuplot tends to fit these applications (wxwidget etc.)
> and we must use newest gnuplot version.
> 
> Vladimir Titov, Linux-ink

Hi Vladimir,
If a package is supported by RedHat, we are not going to change it just 
because it is old.  If we were to do that then we might as well update 
the entire release each time.  That is not what Scientific Linux is about.
Scientific Linux is an Enterprise linux, which means that packages 
remain stable.  Sometimes those packages get old, but they remain stable.
The package gnuplot42 is not updating the gnuplot that RedHat already 
supports, but add's another package.  It is packaged so that a person 
can have either the old gnuplot, or the newer 4.2 gnuplot installed at 
the same time.
But, you do have a point.
If we are making this new gnuplot42, why make it 42 instead of 44.  The 
easy answer is that when this was started, 44 wasn't released.

What do people think?
Should we change gnuplot42 to gnuplot44?
That shouldn't be too hard.
Is there any technical reasons why we wouldn't want gnuplot44?

Troy
p.s. SL 5.5 Release Candidate 1 will have gnuplot42, but if we work fast 
on this we could have gnuplot44 in the final release.
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