Re: Out of Date bug for Qt terminal

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> Mojca,
>
> Some others are experiencing bugs similar to what you report here:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3469233&group_id=2055&atid=102055
>
> Why was this bug listed as "out of date"?

I'm not sure why it was listed as "out of date" exactly, that's a
question for Ethan, but that was on 11th January, 6 days before a
major patch has been applied by Jérôme:

2012-01-17  Jérôme Lodewyck

  * configure.in src/Makefile.am src/qtterminal/Makefile.am
  src/qtterminal/QtGnuplotApplication.cpp
  src/qtterminal/QtGnuplotApplication.h src/qtterminal/QtGnuplotEvent.cpp
  src/qtterminal/QtGnuplotEvent.h src/qtterminal/gnuplot_qt.cpp
  src/qtterminal/qt_term.cpp term/qt.trm: The Qt terminal application is
  executed in a separate executable called gnuplot_qt, started by exec.
  This makes the Qt terminal compatible with OS X.

https://github.com/gnuplot/gnuplot/commit/a98002601bf690d0c37c47a7948c53a2096c20de

It left some issues (like: Mac now sees two executables instead of one
and draws both on dock, but one gets hidden afterwards; printing
crashes). Some further trivial compilation issues which finally
enabled compilation on Mac have been fixed after 4.6 release with
commit on "2012-06-23 Jérôme lodewyck".

https://github.com/gnuplot/gnuplot/commit/1da6c54924c275189a5954eeed8bb38e305b780f

That second patch has not yet been imported into branch-4-6-stable (I
really hope that they will end up in 4.6.1).

> Did it resolve on its own, or is
> this simply a case of having a fork in the process and the
> debugger/compile-with-debug-code is unable to handle a fork.

No, it was actually crashing and useless, it wasn't just about
debugger. It didn't resolve on its own, it was the two patches listed
above that made Qt usable on Mac. All in all, after end of june that
bug report has actually been resolved, so there's no need to worry
about it any more. It's just the ticket that has been closed "in
advance" ;)

Mojca

(PS: I still believe that there must be a way to completely avoid fork
on Mac, but I'm not experienced enough to figure it out how.)