Re: Gnuplot installer of Dr. Tatsuro MATSUOKA

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

On Thursday, 05 July 2012, Morten Tretmar wrote:
> Dear Dr. Tatsuro MATSUOKA,
> 
> I am using the recent Gnuplot you are providing gratefully via you webpage here:
> http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/gnuplot/Eng/winbin/
> 
> Unfortunately since you switched to a proper installer it is no longer possible to install Gnuplot as a non-administrator. I would like to ask therefore if it is possible that you could either provide the package as ZIP archive, too or adjust the installer so it allows non-administrative installations, too.

The latest official release of gnuplot (version 4.6 patchlevel 0),
is provided for download on the project's home site on SourceForge:
  https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/files/gnuplot/4.6.0/

It was released in March 2012.
Three windows versions are available, only one of which is wrapped
in the installer that is causing you a problem.

    gp460-win32-setup.exe  Windows binary installer
    gp460win32.zip         Windows binary (no installer)
    gp460win32x11.zip      Cygwin (x11) binary package
    gp460dj2.zip           DJGPP binary package

Tatsuro Matsuoka is kind enough to provide occasional snapshot 
builds from the CVS development branch on his private site, but
it is not reasonable to expect that these snapshots will represent
the full range of build options for today's (or even this month's) 
development version.  For that you should download directly from the
CVS source and build it yourself.

The official version is updated every 6 months or so.  Is there is 
some particular new feature or fix in the CVS source that you are 
missing in 4.6.0?  A list of changes already slated for includion in
4.6.1 is here:
   http://gnuplot.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gnuplot/gnuplot/NEWS?revision=1.229.2.27&view=markup

> With regards,
> 
> Morten.
> 
> BTW: I send this request here because I read this statement:
> "I prefer that inquiries will be done through gnuplot-beta_atmark_lists.sourceforge.net"
> If that is the wrong place to ask, please guide me accordingly.

Here is fine.

	Ethan