Re: 4.4 - Nearing the finish line

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

> On Monday 08 March 2010 11:04:08 Petr Mikulik wrote:
> > I have compiled OS/2 binary package and synchronized it with Tatsuro's
> > build of Windows and dj2 packages.
> > 
> > All of them are temporarily here:
> >         physics.muni.cz/~mikulik/tmp/gp440.zip
> > Ethan, please upload the inner zip files to SourceForge.
> 
> Could you please clarify?  From your zip archive I retrieved
>  1440 -rw-r--r-- 1 merritt merritt  1468037 2010-03-08 10:32 gp440dj2.zip
>  3708 -rw-r--r-- 1 merritt merritt  3789129 2010-03-08 10:23 gp440os2.zip
>  1232 -rw-r--r-- 1 merritt merritt  1254841 2010-03-08 10:37 gp440win32x11.zip
> 10108 -rw-r--r-- 1 merritt merritt 10331008 2010-03-08 10:32 gp440win32.zip
> 
> From Tatsuro's web site I have zip files
> 1460 -rw-r--r-- 1 merritt users 1489127 2010-03-07 21:53 gp440dj2.zip
> 4104 -rw-r--r-- 1 merritt users 4197789 2010-03-07 21:53 gp440win32wxt-diff.zip
> 1216 -rw-r--r-- 1 merritt users 1238908 2010-03-07 21:53 gp440win32x11.zip
> 7972 -rw-r--r-- 1 merritt users 8147492 2010-03-07 21:53 gp440win32.zip
> 
> So they are different sizes.  Which ones are correct to upload?
> 
> > Considering Windows, I've put together the "native" Windows terminal with 
> > the wxt version. Therefore, the default is the wxt terminal on Windows as on 
> > Linux. I hope Copy-to-clipboard works; then only the Print dialog is missing 
> > (and maybe user's configurable position&size of the graph windows).
> 
> Do you mean that you combined gp440win32.zip and gp440win32wxt-diff.zip?
> Is that why your win32 zip file is bigger?

Yes (let's don't let Windows users "patch" distribution).

> (But your dj2 and winx11 files are also a different size).

Yes, I did "unix2dos" for CR/LF, removed temporary exe from docs, and some 
other minor things, so that all what was in gp42*.zip is also in gp440*.zip.

> Maybe we should offer for download 2 versions, with and without wxt.
> Can I re-name yours to be gp440win32wxt, and keep Tatsuro's as gp440win32?

I don't think it makes any sense or advantage. There are already 
wgnuplot.exe, wgnuplot_pipes.exe, pgnuplot.exe and gnuplot.exe in one zip, 
i.e. enough for user confusion.

User gets the traditional windows terminal by "GNUTERM=windows", if needed.
As on Linux, where this switch happened a year ago from x11 to wxt.

For nostalgy, it could make sense to have a package with the static 
monolithic single file wgnuplot.exe as I was distributing it until now. 
(Would somebody need it? E.g. gp440win32small.zip?)


> Also, I need to label each file with a short description.
> 
> gp440win32.zip		8,147,492 bytes 2010-03-08
>                 	Windows binary package, no source
> 
> gp440win32wxt.zip	10,331,008 bytes 2010-03-08
> 			Windows binary package including wxt terminal, no source
> 
> gp440win32x11.zip	1,238,908 bytes, 2010-03-08
> 	                Cygwin x11 binary package, no source, demos, or docs
> 
> gp440dj2.zip		1,489,127 bytes, 2010-03-05
> 	                DJGPP binary package, no source, no docs
> 
> gp440os2.zip		3,789,129 bytes, 2010-03-08
> 			OS2 binary package, no source

I propose this:

gp440win32.zip
	Windows binary package

gp440win32x11.zip 
	Windows binary package for Cygwin X11 (without docs and demos)

gp440os2.zip
	OS/2 and eComStation binary package

gp440dj2.zip
	DJGPP binary package (32bit DOS, for example)

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