[racket-dev] Adding the new plot library [was: Re: Plot?]

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On 09/30/11 02:06, James Vega wrote:
> Eli Barzilay <eli at ...> writes:
>> The thing is that keeping things completely backward compatible
>> means keeping some C code (the fit thing), and that translates to
>> a real problem with linux distributions (see the Fedora point
>> earlier).  Not being completely backward compatible has the
>> advantage of moving at least the Fedora distribution faster (and
>> I won't be surprised if Debian/Ubuntu would have issues with this
>> too -- I'm surprised they didn't say anything about it so far).
> 
> I did -- http://bugs.racket-lang.org/query/?cmd=view&pr=10756. :) 
> You convinced me that the status quo was good enough for now and
> that it'd eventually be replaced by scheme^Wracket.  Glad to see
> that's happening.

I'm confused now. That bug talks about a bundled zlib, while Eli says
this is about:

``keeping the C code that was ripped out of gnuplot.''

which would IIUC be a violation of gnuplot's license.

Marijn
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