gnuplot-beta

DONE.

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

Finally,

we're through with it.

Announcements to the major relevant places (both the old and the new user
mailing list, the newsgroup, the SF "News" posting system, and the people 
who are watching the file release) have been sent out.

Remaining thing(s) to do: 

* those of you closely affiliated with external sites / user groups should
probably tell them about it.  E.g. Petr or somebody should tell the
Octave guys.

* Somebody(tm) will have to take responsibility for freshmeat page on
gnuplot and update it.  It appears to be ownerless right now.  Guess
I might as well do it myself.

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.

Re: DONE.

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> * those of you closely affiliated with external sites / user groups should
> probably tell them about it.  E.g. Petr or somebody should tell the
> Octave guys.

Ok, I'll send it there (and to www.root.cz as well :-))

Petr

Re: DONE.

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> * those of you closely affiliated with external sites / user groups should
> probably tell them about it.  E.g. Petr or somebody should tell the
> Octave guys.

I've put announcements to
	graphics at octave dot org
	www dot root dot cz
	Newsgroups: comp.text.tex

***

I've noticed two bugs in the Announcement -- wrong links:

http://www.gnuplot.info/faq.html
ftp://ftp.gnuplot.info/pub/gnuplot/faq/faq.txt


The 1st is solved by "html refresh" faq.html => faq/index.html (should
mirror to www.gnuplot.info soon).

The 2nd one .. somebody with an appropriate access should solve (a proby
redirect too).

***

The published file "gpdoc.zip": I propose to add there same docs-related
files as gp400{os2, win}.zip contain:
-- faq
-- gpcard
-- tutorial/
-- postscript-terminal/

(BTW, do they get installed by some "make install ???"?)

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Re: DONE.

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

Please fix these two bugs from the Announcement -- wrong links:

> http://www.gnuplot.info/faq.html
> ftp://ftp.gnuplot.info/pub/gnuplot/faq/faq.txt

The 1st is solved by "html refresh" faq.html => faq/index.html

Plese copy manualy gnuplot.sf.net/faq.html => to www.gnuplot.info/faq.html
... it does not get mirrored


> The 2nd one .. somebody with an appropriate access should solve (a proby
> redirect too).

ftp://ftp.gnuplot.info/pub/gnuplot/faq/
...it is still the old version

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Re: DONE.

[Clark G. <ga...@di...>]

Petr Mikulik wrote:
> Please fix these two bugs from the Announcement -- wrong links:
> 
>>http://www.gnuplot.info/faq.html
>>ftp://ftp.gnuplot.info/pub/gnuplot/faq/faq.txt
> 
> The 1st is solved by "html refresh" faq.html => faq/index.html
> 
> Plese copy manualy gnuplot.sf.net/faq.html => to www.gnuplot.info/faq.html
> ... it does not get mirrored

not there on sf per wget.  it was accomplished before with a symlink.  my 
preference would be to point the announcement to /faq than /faq.html

>>The 2nd one .. somebody with an appropriate access should solve (a proby
>>redirect too).
> 
> ftp://ftp.gnuplot.info/pub/gnuplot/faq/
> ...it is still the old version

I believe this is mirrored from lars's ftp repository.  Again, I'd be 
inclined to go with one-stop-shopping and point to
  http://www.gnuplot.info/faq

--ckg

Re: DONE.

[Lars H. <lhe...@us...>]

> >ftp://ftp.gnuplot.info/pub/gnuplot/faq/
> >...it is still the old version
> 
> I believe this is mirrored from lars's ftp repository.  Again, I'd be 
> inclined to go with one-stop-shopping and point to
>  http://www.gnuplot.info/faq

 Yep - the faq directory from the ftp site is gone; it wasn't quite up to
 date anyway.

 I will remove the UCC web site; or should I instead set up a mirror from
 SF/gnuplot.info? I need to keep the ftp site, though.

Re: DONE.

[Clark G. <ga...@di...>]

Lars Hecking wrote:
>>>ftp://ftp.gnuplot.info/pub/gnuplot/faq/
>>>...it is still the old version
>>
>>I believe this is mirrored from lars's ftp repository.  Again, I'd be 
>>inclined to go with one-stop-shopping and point to
>> http://www.gnuplot.info/faq
> 
> 
>  Yep - the faq directory from the ftp site is gone; it wasn't quite up to
>  date anyway.
> 
>  I will remove the UCC web site; or should I instead set up a mirror from
>  SF/gnuplot.info? I need to keep the ftp site, though.

I'd prefer we not do mirrors of mirrors of non-canonicals.  [Only a native 
English speaker could murder the language thusly!]  I like the mirroring to 
canonical approach, as it gives us 0-30 minutes of staging to see if we 
broke something.  We should point other mirrors and users to gnuplot.info 
and use sf as a staging/testing area for ourselves [poor-man's change 
management].

I do have oldwww.gnuplot.info set up in case we need it for historical 
purposes.  I'll maintain this on a "best-effort" basis.

Since we do not have ftp from sf anymore, using your ftp as the staging area 
has been useful.  I would prefer that we get this on sf, perhaps in the 
/htdocs/files or /htdocs/ftp directory, then mirror that to 
ftp://ftp.gnuplot.info/pub/gnuplot.  I don't mind mirroring with http to the 
ftp repository.

Don't know if anyone noticed, but there are other /pub directories; in 
particular gnuplot-historical, into which we should probably put something 
from the pre-4.0 [3.7 or 3.8-ish?] era.  If anyone has their favorite golden 
pre-4.0 build they would care to nominate, I will be happy to throw it into 
-historical.  Take a look at what is there and see if you think there is any 
other build you consider so worthy.  Btw, if anyone would care to write a 
little "historical background" document with a synopsis of each of those 
builds, that would be a worthy contribution.  Similarly, we could add a FAQ 
item with a link to these historical releases.

--ckg

Re: DONE.

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> Don't know if anyone noticed, but there are other /pub directories; in
> particular gnuplot-historical, into which we should probably put something
> from the pre-4.0 [3.7 or 3.8-ish?] era.  If anyone has their favorite golden

Yes, please keep the historical archive of previous releases.

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Re: DONE.

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> > Plese copy manualy gnuplot.sf.net/faq.html => to www.gnuplot.info/faq.html
> > ... it does not get mirrored
>
> not there on sf per wget.  it was accomplished before with a symlink.  my
> preference would be to point the announcement to /faq than /faq.html

The announcement has been already posted to many sites ... and the 1st
reaction on comp.text.tex was about exactly this wrong link. So we must
ensure it gets working.

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Re: DONE.

[Clark G. <ga...@di...>]

Petr Mikulik wrote:
>>>Plese copy manualy gnuplot.sf.net/faq.html => to www.gnuplot.info/faq.html
>>>... it does not get mirrored
>>
>>not there on sf per wget.  it was accomplished before with a symlink.  my
>>preference would be to point the announcement to /faq than /faq.html
> 
> 
> The announcement has been already posted to many sites ... and the 1st
> reaction on comp.text.tex was about exactly this wrong link. So we must
> ensure it gets working.

Yeah, sory I missed that in the announcement.  Should be working now; please 
confirm (be browser is being obstinate at the moment).

--ckg

Yaaaay!!!

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

>Finally,
>
>we're through with it.
>

Congratulations folks, and a job well done.  All your hard work in the 
last few weeks will make it that much easier releasing future versions 
of gnuplot.

Dan