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

[Jeremy C. <jer...@gm...>]

On 7/12/07, Ethan Merritt <merritt@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 12 July 2007 13:04, Thomas Treichl <Tho...@gm...> 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
>
>         Ethan

I'm not a Mac-based developer, but I use Gnuplot daily on my Mac.  I
use AquaTerm because I don't like how X11 looks/acts on my Mac; it
isn't very Mac-like which is very important to Mac users.  I don't use
the mouse with Gnuplot (maybe I would if it worked in AquaTerm) so
those extra features are not a big loss to me.  If the features
missing from AquaTerm were included/fixed, all the better.  I would be
happy to test any Gnuplot.app binary available.  Unfortunately, I'm
not don't program for the Mac so I couldn't fix the bugs.  I would be
happy to try it out.

For general Mac users, I suspect a self contained Gnuplot.app is a
wonderful idea.  Being able to install/uninstall Gnuplot just like any
other app is a welcome feature.

Thanks for the great work.
Jeremy Conlin