Re: Getting ready to put out a 4.6 release candidate

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

Hello

--- On Fri, 2012/1/6, sfeam (Ethan Merritt) wrote:

> 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.
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> 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?

The below change of cvs (4.5) branch is necessary for installer.
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2011-12-23  Bastian Maerkisch  <bma...@we...>

	Installer for Windows. Japanese translation by Shigeharu Takeno.

	* win/gnuplot.iss win/modpath.iss: Installer script to be compiled by
	Inno Setup. New files.

	* win/Copyright-ja.txt: Japanese translation of Copyright, includes
	original text. Encoding is Shift-JIS.

	* win/README-Windows.txt win/README-Windows-ja.txt: New files, 
	displayed by installer before installation. Based on Tatsuro Matsuoka's
	README.Windows.gpteam and README.

	* config/mingw/Makefile: New make target 'installer'. Let make dist
	copy TeX files to a standard TeX directory structure (TDS). 
*****************************************************************

I have checked installer several times, it worked very fine.
However the contents is different from the previous release.

I have posted on Dec. 23, 2011 on beta list.

contents of docs directory in windows binaries:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28585157

I at the moment make extra.zip on my web for the windows cvs distribution.
http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/gnuplot/Eng/winbin/

I think that contents in docs directory should be discussed before release because windows users will seldom see the source of gnuplot.  In my opinion, postscript related documents is required in the binary release as was done previously.

Regards

Tatsuro



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