Re: demos

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

On Friday 04 August 2006 09:43 am, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> First, could this
> "gnuplot-defined variables" be made a permanent thing?

I do not understand the question.

> I think I've  been asked if gnuplot somehow could return its version.

gnuplot --version
gnuplot -V

> Second, is what you've done, Ethan, easy enough so that a user might
> be able to program their own special version of gnuplot and add a
> custom variable to identify their version?  Or don't we want to
> encourage that sort of thing?)

My recommendation would be that any locally-modified version should
change the contents of the PATCHLEVEL file.  Everything else will
be handled automatically.  Perhaps this should be documented somewhere
(INSTALL? README?)


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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA