Re: 4.4 - Nearing the finish line

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> > I have made those changes to INSTALL and the makefiles for mgw and cygwin.
> > I will also disable the HAVE_PWD_H option because
> > (1) Manfred Schwarb has reported here that it causes static build problems
> > (2) Daniel L[be][ad][a5][e2]b has reported on the newsgroup that it introduces privacy issues
> > (3) It seems like a totally unnecessary bell (or is it a whistle?) that in any case
> >     is used only by the PostScript and PDF terminal output 

Well, now it seems that now it contains
SDict begin [
  /Author (mikulik)
instead of the previous
  /Author (Petr Mikulik)
Is this intended? Shouldn't the /Author line be completely avoided?

> > I will generate the 4.4.0 source tarball tonight, and the wait for Tatsuro and/or
> > Petr to generate binary packages for windows so that the source and binaries 
> > can be uploaded to SourceForge on the same date.
> 
> Thank you for your taking my proposal account into account.
> I have confirmed the change on the cvs.
> 
> After you will made the source tarball the 4.4.0, I will make the windows, cygwin, djgpp binaries as
> soon as possible.  I will do it on the PC in the university. Because the Internet in my home is still
> narrow band :-( and I am now updating the dependency libraries in the PC in my home.
> (I want use it for gnuplot 4.5 release.)
> 
> For the building 4.4.0, it is better to use the no-updated dependencies, which have been used in a few
> months (probably) without problems, to avoid unexpected errors.
> 
> BTW, I do not have the authorization to upload files to the SourceForge.
> I can make my web page for uploading 4.4.0 binaries.
> Will someone download them and upload to SourceForge?

Please zip all those 3 distributions, put it into you web page and send the 
link to me and Ethan; I will proofread them and check against the previous 
packages provided by me. I will prepare also the OS/2 package.

There was a discussion about Mac issues recently. Is there any chance that 
it/they can be also prepared for uploading into sourceforge at the same 
time?

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