Re: Qt terminal status / linux distro packages

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 07:10:44 am Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> If the Qt terminal is included with the next release and the user 
> doesn't have Qt operational on his or her system, what will happen? 
> That's all I meant.

So far the inclusion of the qt terminal is optional and must be requested
specifically via
   ./configure --enable-qt

If you enable it but do not have the required dependencies installed then
you get a configuration error message and gnuplot is built without qt even
though you requested it.

In the 4.6 release notes it is recommended to distribution packagers that
they pick one of X11/wxt/qt for the package configuration rather than 
cramming all of them into a single build.   This is especially true since
the wxt and qt terminals cannot be used together in a single session 
anyhow.  I have not tried to track the extent to which individual distros 
have followed this suggestion.

Mojca Miklavec <moj...@gm...> wrote:
> [ OpenSUSE 11.1 pkg-config error ] 
> Bad maintenance. Bug closed as "NO RESPONSE" here:
>     https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=715882
> One should reopen it or file a new one.

I don't think we should try too hard to retroactively work around
distro packaging errors.  It was never our error, OpenSUSE has fixed
it in a later release, and the work-around is obvious from both the
gnuplot and the SUSE bug trackers.   Let's just disregard this and
move on.

	Ethan