Re: 5.0-rc3 on OpenBSD 5.6: mostly ok, but a few glitches

[sfeam <sf...@us...>]

On Sunday, 07 December 2014 06:43:07 PM Allin Cottrell wrote:

> (My own view is that having gnuplot depend on wxWidgets is somewhat 
> problematic. wxWidgets is a sort of "wrapper" which supposedly 
> provides a degree of platform independence, but this seems to be 
> fragile and I think it would be better to depend on GTK directly.)

Wouldn't that essentially require writing an entirely new graphics 
library that provides the equivalent layer that wx provides now?

It's hard to see how that would ever be worth the amount of work
involved.  And then Mojca would be unhappy because OSX wants the
graphics to go through Cocoa or Carbon, not gtk.

Since Mojca reports that there is no longer a problem on OSX,
I think what we are left with is a non-optimal packaging 
decision specifically by Debian/Ubuntu.
Gnuplot works fine with wxt 2.8, and this library version is still
available in Debian, but they have chosen not to provide a gnuplot
package that uses it.
 
	Ethan