Re: [PATCH] lisp/ob-octave.el, was [PATCH] rfc: using ert-deftest with side-effects

[Ihor Radchenko]

Leo Butler <Leo.Butler@umanitoba.ca> writes:

>> The gnuplot graphics toolkit is not actively maintained and has a number
>> of limitations that are unlikely to be fixed.  Communication with gnuplot
>> uses a one-directional pipe and limited information is passed back to the
>> Octave interpreter so most changes made interactively in the plot window
>> will not be reflected in the graphics properties managed by Octave.  For
>> example, if the plot window is closed with a mouse click, Octave will not
>> be notified and will not update its internal list of open figure windows.
>> The qt toolkit is recommended instead.
>
> This is not being caused by a faulty test.
>
> The default graphics toolkit for octave is not gnuplot. To get that
> warning, the graphics toolkit needs to be set to gnuplot. But, that is
> not done in those tests, so where/how is that happening?

CI machine is running Debian. AFAIU, gnuplot toolkit is default in
octave distributed with Debian.

We do not do anything special wrt configuration:
https://builds.sr.ht/api/jobs/921769/manifest

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