Re: Getting ready to put out a 4.6 release candidate

[Bastian M. <bma...@we...>]

Apologies for the late reply - I am quite busy right now. I will update 
config/mingw/Makefile and the installer accordingly. The patch mentioned 
below should cleanly apply to the 4.6 branch as well. This will make 
sure that files are included in the source tarball as well.

Please note that it is possible to include extra files in the binary 
distribution by specifying an EXTRADIST directory in Makefile.

In my opinion we shouldn't drop the zip distribution. gnuplot is a very 
nice "portable" application to carry around on an USB stick.

One thing I would like to be updated before an actual 4.6 release are 
the Windows menus wgnuplot.mnu, which are a bit out of snyc with 
gnuplot's current abilites.

Bastian


Am 06.01.2012 09:12, schrieb Tatsuro MATSUOKA:
> 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.
>>
>> 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.
> *******************************************************
> 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
>
>
>
>>      Ethan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Tatsuro
>>>>       Ethan
>>>>
>>>