Re: demos

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

Ethan Merritt wrote:
> 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.

You said: "Of course, this requires that string variables are configure in
(now the default)."  But string vars are something different.  The GPVAL_VERSION is always present then and can't be configured out of gnuplot some how?  (I haven't followed the GPVAL_ threads.)


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

That helps a little bit in the sense that it weeds out a lot.  But it still isn't at the command line... eh, let user demand drive this.  If more people ask, then I'll raise the issue again.


>>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.

OK.

Dan