Hacks to get stripped version running under Julia v0.7-alpha

REQUIRE

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Reexport
 StaticArrays 0.5
 FixedPointNumbers 0.3
 Measures
+Dates
 Showoff
 StatsBase 0.14.0
 JSON

src/Plots.jl

@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ import RecipesBase: plot, plot!, animate
 using Base.Meta
 @reexport using PlotUtils
 @reexport using PlotThemes
+import Dates
+import Dates.Date
 import Showoff
 import StatsBase
 import JSON

src/backends/hdf5.jl

@@ -409,15 +409,6 @@ function _hdf5plot_gwrite(grp, k::String, v::Surface)
 	_hdf5plot_gwrite(grp, "data2d", v.surf)
 	_hdf5plot_writetype(grp, Surface)
 end
-#TODO: "Properly" support Nullable using _hdf5plot_writetype?
-function _hdf5plot_gwrite(grp, k::String, v::Nullable)
-    if isnull(v)
-        _hdf5plot_gwrite(grp, k, nothing)
-    else
-        _hdf5plot_gwrite(grp, k, v.value)
-    end
-    return
-end
 
 function _hdf5plot_gwrite(grp, k::String, v::SeriesAnnotations)
     #Currently no support for SeriesAnnotations

src/components.jl

@@ -438,16 +438,16 @@ end
 mutable struct SeriesAnnotations
     strs::AbstractVector  # the labels/names
     font::Font
-    baseshape::Nullable
+    baseshape::Union{Any, Nothing}
     scalefactor::Tuple
 end
 function series_annotations(strs::AbstractVector, args...)
     fnt = font()
-    shp = Nullable{Any}()
+    shp = Union{Any, Nothing}()
     scalefactor = (1,1)
     for arg in args
         if isa(arg, Shape) || (isa(arg, AbstractVector) && eltype(arg) == Shape)
-            shp = Nullable(arg)
+            shp = Union{Any, Nothing}()
         elseif isa(arg, Font)
             fnt = arg
         elseif isa(arg, Symbol) && haskey(_shapes, arg)

src/plot.jl

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 
 mutable struct CurrentPlot
-    nullableplot::Nullable{AbstractPlot}
+    nullableplot::Union{AbstractPlot, Nothing}
 end
-const CURRENT_PLOT = CurrentPlot(Nullable{AbstractPlot}())
+const CURRENT_PLOT = CurrentPlot(nothing)
 
-isplotnull() = isnull(CURRENT_PLOT.nullableplot)
+isplotnull() = CURRENT_PLOT.nullableplot == nothing
 
 """
     current()
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ function current()
     end
     get(CURRENT_PLOT.nullableplot)
 end
-current(plot::AbstractPlot) = (CURRENT_PLOT.nullableplot = Nullable(plot))
+current(plot::AbstractPlot) = (CURRENT_PLOT.nullableplot == nothing)
 
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