Re: www.gnuplot.info domain (was: Re: 4.2.6 released)

[Philipp K. J. <ja...@ie...>]

On Thursday 03 September 2009 06:13:01 pm Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Philipp K. Janert wrote:
> > On this matter (since I was recently very confused
> > about this):
> >
> > The domain at www.gnuplot.info points to a mirror
> > of the gnuplot main site at gnuplot.sourceforge.net.
>
> Aha, that explains it.  It seems odd to have the "official"
> gnuplot site (well, the #1 google hit) be a mirror of the
> "primary" site, with a lag of up to 24 hours.

I completely agree - I never knew this either.

I don't mind the mirroring (although I don't see
the need for it either), but I do mind that it is 
not more clearly stated.

>
> On the gretl page that references gnuplot I've now switched the
> URI to point to gnuplot.sourceforge.net.
>
> Allin Cottrell