Re: Gnuplot installer of Dr. Tatsuro MATSUOKA

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Dear Ethan,

thank you for that information.

Why I am using the 4.7.x branch (recently) is because of this new feature:

* NEW inline data can be stored for reuse in named data blocks

...which is actually something I as hoping for a very long time.

If this will be implemented in 4.6.1, too I am looking forward to this
release. Besides: I am writing installers myself, too so I was hoping
that this is more a flag for the installer rather than a more complex
operation... I might be wrong though.

Best regards!

Ps.: Let me take the chance to thank you all for your hard work. I am
using Gnuplot for more than 10 years now and it is my #1 scriptable and
feature rich plotter application. Excellent work!

On 06.07.2012 17:42, sfeam (Ethan Merritt) wrote:
> 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 
> 
>