Re: adding picins.sty to docs/

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 18:51, Ethan Merritt <merritt@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 September 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>
>> Would it be possible to put picins.sty to docs/, so that documentation
>> (pdffigures) will at least compile without problems?
>
> On the other hand, it's not that hard to regenerate a copy of the
> pdf+figures from the CVS source yourself.   It is true that you may
> have to tweak the local TeX environment to successfully use the
> "make pdffigures" target rather than "make pdf".  But you clearly have
> far more TeX experience than I do, so it seems surprising that you
> would have difficulty installing one extra *.sty file on your system.

It is not about skills needed to install picins.sty. (One could
probably also compile gnuplot with manual calls to gcc, without having
to use ./configure etc.)

It is about the ability to make compilation work out-of-the-box. The
file is so small that I don't see any harm in including it (just
placing a copy to <repository>/docs/picins.sty). Trivial patches add
up. I can easily imagine that linux distributions would prefer to
build gnuplot with "make pdffigures", but they won't if they have to
patch sources.

Mojca