Fwd: Gnuplot.app for Mac users Also coordination with Octave

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

On Thursday 12 July 2007 13:04,  wrote:
> Dear Ethan,
> 
> I don't know if I sent this email to the right mailing-list that's why I once
> again send this email directly to you as a Gnuplot maintainer... 

Thanks.  I will forward your mail to the developers mailing list.

There are several issues on which the octave and gnuplot projects should
coordinate better. I am neither an Octave nor a Mac user, so I may not
fully understand all the details, but here is how I understand it...

1) I am told that Octave now pipes in-line data to gnuplot, which has
broken the ability to zoom with the mouse and also some or all of the
normal hot-keys.  There are 2 competing proposals for how we could fix
this, but it might help if we knew better what additional changes 
might or might not be possible on the Octave end of the pipe.
And of course it would have been nice to have more advance warning
of this change, so that we might have had a fix all ready to go.

2) I have been relying on several developers with Mac experience to
provide an OSX binary package.  As I understand it, this has been
held up by difficulties with creating a universal binary, and by 
problems with mouse focus.  I honestly do not understand your summary
of Mac issues which you have now solved.  Are these the same?
Or maybe those only had to do with inclusion of the wxt terminal?

3) Aquaterm is somewhat of a separate issue.  Basically it does not
implement the full feature set provided by other gnuplot interactive
terminals. I'm sure this could be fixed, but I don't think anyone is
currently working on it.  I recently borrowed a Mac and a local OSX
fanatic to walk me through use of gnuplot under OSX, and my conclusion
was that use of aquaterm came in a poor second to using the x11 terminal.
So I would hope that your binary supports x11 also?

Anyhow, I think we would be happy to place working Mac binaries on
the SourceForge site.  But I'd like some of the Mac-based developers
to chime in with comments


> Also all other  
> emails that I send to
> 
>    mailto:lhe...@us...
>    mailto:sf...@us...
> 
> returned to me with an "undisclosed recipients" message.

Strange.  I get other mail through that address,
but I have not seen any mail from you.

Could you please send a complaint to the SourceForge organization
itself?  It must be something broken in their mailing-list software.


-- 
Ethan A Merritt