Re: Getting ready to put out a 4.6 release candidate

[sfeam (E. Merritt) <eam...@gm...>]

On Wednesday, 04 January 2012, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> Hello
> 
> --- On Thu, 2012/1/5, Ethan A Merritt  wrote:
> 
> > Tatsuro MATSUOKA 
> > > Hello
> > > 
> > > In my opinion, the windows binary distribution is better to done in installer style for gnuplot-4.6.
> > > Therefore change for installer is better to be included in the mingw/Makefile for 4.6.
> > > 
> > > Ethan and Bastian
> > > How do you think?
> > 
> > Fine with me.  
> > It just went into 4.5 CVS very recently, right?   
> You are right.
> 
> > Have there been any user reports to indicate how many people have
> > successfully used it?
> There have been no reports binaries in installer style.
> If you do not want hurry about this matter, the distribution of 4.6.0 will be done in zip style and the distribution of 4.6.1 will be changed to installer style.

The reason for putting out a "release candidate" 4.6.rc1 before putting 
out 4.6.0 is so that there is time to collect reports of problems.
In particular I hope we find out if there are problems with configuration
or installation. That way we can hope to have fixed all the errors in 4.6.0.
Well, we can hope :-)

Therefore I think the release candidate is a very good time to introduce
a new installation method.  If there are problems then we can fix
them or revert to the old installation method if necessary.

You have said that a change is needed in mingw/Makefile.
Are there any other changes needed to support the new installer?
Any new files that I need to add to the list of files included
in the gnuplot-4.6.rc1.tar.gz?

	Ethan




> 
> Regards
> 
> Tatsuro
> >     Ethan
> > 
>