Re: Last call for issues affecting release of gnuplot 5.0

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 12/29/2014 02:31 PM, sfeam wrote:
> On Monday, 29 December 2014 12:39:27 PM Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>> On 12/29/2014 12:27 PM, sfeam wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I plan to package up gnuplot 5.0 and place the tarball on SourceForge
>>> for release on New Year's Day.  If you know of any remaining issues
>>> that should be either fixed or mentioned in the Release Notes, please
>>> post them here on the mailing list.
>>>
>>> The current text of the Release Notes is here:
>>>
>>>     http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/ReleaseNotes_5_0.html
>>>
>>> 		Ethan
>>
>> Are some of the recent WXT/Qt mods going to be in 5.0?  Or is that 5.1?
>
> wxt -definitely.  This was one of the major items holding up release of 5.0
>
> qt - not sure what you have in mind.
>       There is not yet any divergence between qt in 5.0 and 5.1
>
>> I'm very close to completing HTML documentation and help manuals (i.e.,
>> Help Book and Qt-Assistant) for those terminals.
>
> Not sure I'm in favor of this.
> I don't really see the point.
> If you want html documentation, why would it be terminal-specific?

The Help Book format is something that Bastian attempted and requested 
integrated into wxWidgets terminal.  It takes the gnuplot Doc material 
and formats it so that it can be used in the common Windows Help Book 
viewer.  You may have not seen that utility, and I don't use it too 
often, but it presents the documentation with a TOC on the left window 
with quick access to any of the topics.

Qt has something that duplicates that utility called Qt-Assistant.  It 
looks very much the same, but has the added feature of being able to 
search the documentation.


> And why would you want to view it in anything other than your
> normal preferred browser?

The Help Book/Qt-Assistant format is much faster than a typical browser, 
it's a little better packaged in a way, and it doesn't require a browser 
be running.

What I've done, in the case that the gnuplot.htb (Help Book) or 
gnuplot.qhc (Qt-Assistant help collection) is allow for the normal HTML 
code to be viewed in a wxWidgets or Qt window.  Both of those frameworks 
support HTML code natively.  So again, no browser is needed to use the 
HTML help for those two terminals.

Go forward with 5.0.  This can be evaluated for 5.1.

Dan

PS: Very nice having the option for "build" in a completely different 
directory from the source tree.  Can keep all the object files in some 
different account/location that isn't backed up.