Re: names of gnuplot Win32 binaries

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

Hello

Petr Mikulik's opinion is based on keeping backward compatibility while Hans-Bernhard Br将モker's one
is based on the consistency in all platforms.

For me, both opinions are reasonable.  I cannot judge which is better.

However, the original pgnuplot is written by Hans so that the name of console mode of gnuplot on win32
cannot be called as 'pgnuplot.exe' as long as Hans does not agree with Petr's opinion.

The most important thing is the console mode of gnuplot to be public to windows users.

I think that it is better to find the compromising point that console mode of gnuplot is to be called
'gnuplot.exe' rather than to continue to discuss on this matter.

Any comments?

Regards

Tatsuro

   

--- Hans-Bernhard Br将モker <HBB...@t-...> wrote:

> Petr Mikulik wrote:
> 
> > The pgnuplot program serves to capture the standard input and pass it to 
> > gnuplot for drawing. As it is more efficient to pass data to gnuplot.exe 
> > instead of wgnuplot.exe (it was the aim of the console mode gnuplot), then
> > pgnuplot.c could use this code:
> 
> No.  pgnuplot can stay as it is.  Real console gnuplot does more than 
> pgnuplot can, and does it better.  So programs using pgnuplot now will 
> want to switch to the new gnuplot.exe anyway.
> 
> Yes, programs using pgnuplot now will have to be modified.  But for most 
> of them that modification will just be a simplification --- they don't 
> need to special-case Windows any more.
> 
> > Then Windows programs can use the traditional method of piping to 
> > pgnuplot.exe on Windows but with improved efficiency. 
> 
> Or they can just call gnuplot.exe directly, which is better in every 
> conceivable way.
> 


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