Re: Observations on the 4.6rc1 windows package

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

>>> I've fired up that virtual machine that produced that 5 minute delay
>>> earlier. Some observations on several different builds:
>>>
>>> gp46rc1-win32-setup.exe from http://gnuplot.info/development/binaries/
>>> (25-Feb-2012 07:19): a small (1-2 s) delay on startup.
>>>
>>> gp450win32-small-setup.zip from
>>> http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/gnuplot/Eng/winbin/ (2012-02-23, md5sum
>>> feebe279501075f8806a04a4029f899c): No delay at all!
>>>
>>> gp450win32-setup.zip from the same location (2012-02-23, md5sum
>>> 728918c93811f1644711c05fecaebd8f): several minutes of delay.
>>>
>>> I thought that if the delay is related to the initialization of the wxt
>>> terminal, then setting the GNUTERM variable to "windows" may alleviate
>>> the problem, but it didn't.
>>>
>>> Péter Juhász
>>>
>> One of the possibility is that the version of wxwidgets.  Now I am using wxwidgets-2.9.3.
>> To be clear I have to rebuiild wxwidigts 2.8 and re-provide the binary.
>> Now my condition is not so good, I cannot commit further at the moment.
>>
>> Sorry for inconvenience.
>>
>> Tatsuro
>>
>
> Hello
>
> I have downgraded wxWidgets from version 2.9.3 to 2.8.12 and built the recent cvs source.
> http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/gnuplot/Eng/winbin/
> gp450win32-setup.zip
>
> Please test this binary shows slow startup or not.
>
> Regards
>
> Tatsuro
>

Thanks for providing a new build so quickly! On my Vista machine your 
(old) build with wxWidgets 2.9.3 takes ~6s to start up, whereas the 
build with wxWidgets 2.8.12 takes only 0.7s. This is exactly the same 
time it takes for my own build to start up (wxWidgets 2.8.11).
For the moment, I would thus suggest to stay with 2.8 for a 4.6 release 
build.

   Bastian