Re: names of gnuplot Win32 binaries

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

Hello

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

> Therefore there are the following solutions for what the gnuplot 
> distribution for win32 can contain:
> 1. There are 4 full-featured executables:
>     wgnuplot.exe	... as nowadays
>     wgnuplot_pipes.exe	... as nowadays
>     pgnuplot_small.exe 	... renamed current pgnuplot.exe
>     gnuplot.exe		... console mode gnuplot
>     pgnuplot.exe	... copy of gnuplot.exe
> 2. There are 3 full-featured executables:
>     wgnuplot.exe	... as nowadays
>     wgnuplot_pipes.exe	... as nowadays
>     pgnuplot_small.exe 	... renamed current pgnuplot.exe
>     gnuplot.exe		... console mode gnuplot
>     pgnuplot.exe	... small executable piping stdin to gnuplot.exe
> 			    instead of wgnuplot.exe (I've send the code
> 			    yesterday)
> 3. There are 3 full-featured executables:
>     wgnuplot.exe	... as nowadays
>     wgnuplot_pipes.exe	... as nowadays
>     pgnuplot.exe 	... the current version piping to wgnuplot
>     gnuplot.exe		... console mode gnuplot
> 
> Choice 3 is to be rejected as no Program profits from the console mode 
> improvements.
> 
> Using 2. will save cca 2 MB of disk space with respect to choice 1.
> 
> So - shell the distribution contain 1 or 2?

I prefer case 1 because the case 2 causes additional overhead.
Increase of 2MB disk space is not a serious problem in current computer environments.
Perhaps case 1 is the almopst same as that Michael's proporsal.

However my mind does not always mean to reject the case 2.

Regards

Tatsuro




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