[Gnuplot-info] Fwd: Naming of cosole mode gnuplot for windows ( again )

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

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--- Tatsuro MATSUOKA <tma...@ya...> wrote:

> Date:Fri, 3 Oct 2008 18:15:45 +0900 (JST)
> From:Tatsuro MATSUOKA <tma...@ya...>
> Subject:Naming of cosole mode gnuplot for windows ( again )
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> Hello 
> 
> I have voted this issue once
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.gnuplot.devel/7524/match=console+gnuplot+windows
> 
> However, we did not have the conlusion at that moment.
> 
> Benjamin Lindar, who is a maintainer octave on mingw32, uploaded octave on mingw32 on Oct. 1.
> He bundled cvs version console mode of gnuplot for windows as pgnuplot.
> 
> Here I proposed again that cosole mode gnuplot for windows is to be called as 'gnuplot' not
> 'pgnuplot'.
> 
> I know other programs are using pgnuplot+wgnuplot on windows. For example, Maxima.  However, for
> octave, pgnuplot+wgnuplot ordinally distributed does work at all now. Console mode gnuplot for
> windows
> and gnuplot on cygwin are able to be used for octave for windows. I think that platform is not a
> problem.  What program the host software uses is a problem.  In this sence, octave no longer is
> able
> to use pgnuplot+wgnuplot on windows.  
> 
> Therefore, in my idea, console mode gnuplot for windows should be rename as a gnuplot not a
> pgnuplot. 
> This makes things clear.  Octave will not be required to distinguish gnuplot or pgnuplot on
> platform
> problem windows ot unix (inculding cygwin).
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tatsuro
> 
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