gnuplot-beta

Changes to stable branch?

[Per P. <per...@ma...>]

Hi,
I'm considering adding code to make aqua the default terminal to the 
stable branch, as in CVS HEAD, but I'm not sure if that qualifies as a 
*neccessary* change.

Opinions?

/Per

Re: Changes to stable branch?

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Thursday 21 October 2004 03:18 am, Per Persson wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm considering adding code to make aqua the default terminal to the 
> stable branch, as in CVS HEAD, but I'm not sure if that qualifies as a 
> *neccessary* change.

This makes zero sense to me.
As I recall you are telling people to download the development
version of aquaterm, so why balk at telling them to download the 
development version of gnuplot to go with it?
The one is no harder than the other.

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Ethan A Merritt       merritt@u.washington.edu
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Re: Changes to stable branch?

[Per P. <per...@ma...>]

On Oct 21, 2004, at 18:03, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> On Thursday 21 October 2004 03:18 am, Per Persson wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm considering adding code to make aqua the default terminal to the
>> stable branch, as in CVS HEAD, but I'm not sure if that qualifies as a
>> *neccessary* change.
>
> This makes zero sense to me.
> As I recall you are telling people to download the development
> version of aquaterm, so why balk at telling them to download the
> development version of gnuplot to go with it?
> The one is no harder than the other.

Maybe I missed something, but I thought that the reason for branching 
the sources was that there would be a bugfix release of gnuplot 4.0 at 
some point in the future.
My question was if changing the default terminal was something that 
you'd like to see in a bugfix release.

I don't mind telling people to go with 4.1, in fact I'd encourage it.

/Per

Re: Changes to stable branch?

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

Per Persson wrote:

> Maybe I missed something, but I thought that the reason for branching 
> the sources was that there would be a bugfix release of gnuplot 4.0 at 
> some point in the future.
> My question was if changing the default terminal was something that 
> you'd like to see in a bugfix release. 


I haven't been following, sorry.  How does this default work?  It seems 
to me that a "default terminal" is something that the user should be 
able to configure without having to recompile anything.  I know there is 
some reluctance to add default mechanisms to gnuplot.  Is there some way 
already of automatically loading a file at startup?  For example, an 
environment variable

GNUPLOTLOADFILE = "/myhomedirectory/.gnuplotstartup"

or some such thing.  (And then add command line documentation under 
"help load" or "help defaults" about building a startup load file.)

Dan