Re: missing wgnuplot error messages

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

Am 24.06.2010 18:33, schrieb Paavo Helde:

> I understand that new features are needed and important to many people.
> However, we are using gnuplot only programmatically from another library, in
> quite limited contexts to produce nice plots (it is superior in that!) and
> we want to keep it as simple as possible (our own library is already hair
> enough).

It's always been the case that people with special needs can profit from 
compiling open-source programs themselves, with just the right (sub-)set 
of options they need.  But the official binaries are primarily for 
people who can't (or don't want to) compile their own gnuplot, and those 
people are best served with the maximum set of features.


> The statically linked gnuplot.exe
> (http://www.ring.gr.jp/pub/text/TeX/ptex-win32/w32/) appears to be 2.8 MB.

That's not "the" statically linked gnuplot.exe.  It's one of a lot of 
possible compiled binaries, with a certain set of features.  Unless you 
can demonstrate that that's _the_same_ set of features as that of the 
release binaries, you're comparing apples to oranges.

> We only use one executable only anyway.

You are not everybody.