Re: names of gnuplot Win32 binaries

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

Hello Petr

Thank you for your mail for the purposes of resolving the issue of names of gnuplot Win32 binaries.

Previously I had the same opinion with Hans-Bernhard Broeker. But I have compromize with Petr's
opininon on the point of backward compatiblity.

However if Hans does not agree with the name, I think that it is impossible to use the name
'pgnuplot.exe' because it is originally written by Hans and nobody has right to name a console mode
gnuplot Win32 binary to be called as pgnuplot.

Regards

Tatsuro



--- Petr Mikulik <mi...@ph...> wrote:

> Thus, what should be the name of this executable?
> 
> Choice 1.
> The executable will be called pgnuplot.exe -- it will replace the current 
> pgnuplot.exe. No change is required for programs using gnuplot as a plotting 
> engine.
> 
> Choice 2.
> The executable is called gnuplot.exe. Then, every platform will have an
> executable called gnuplot. However -- this will happen somewhen in future 
> (when gnuplot 4.4 is released).
> Drawbacks:
> 1. the name clashes with the name of the x11-capable executable 
>    (user/program cannot determine which one gets called)
> 2. no piping program is set-up to use gnuplot.exe under Windows, and in 
>    future there will be ambiguity whether to call pgnuplot.exe or 
>    gnuplot.exe.
> Thus, it would at least require to reimplement pgnuplot.c so that it 
> redirects all characters from stdin into gnuplot.exe instead of WinMessages 
> into wgnuplot.exe.
> 
> 
> Therefore, in my option, the best way to ensure compatibility is to call 
> the console-capable executable pgnuplot.exe. There will be no change needed 
> for other programs using gnuplot, power users could use pgnuplot.exe for 
> console mode with Windows terminal and others will not be confused.
> 
> I have proposed to rename the current binary of pgnuplot.c to 
> pgnuplot_small.exe if somebody still needs to use it.
> 
> 
> Opinions - votes?
> 
> ---
> Petr Mikulik
> 


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