Re: gnuplot Mac pkg

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2016, Jun T. wrote:

> On 2016/03/08, at 1:37, Allin Cottrell <cot...@wf...> wrote:
>> I've put up a revised version at the same place,
>> http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/gnuplot-quartz.pkg
>
> After install, I've 'sudo mv'ed the Gnuplot.app to places other
> than /Applications/, and it seems it still works fine.
>
> Since the startup script properly sets the environment variables,
> the help file gnuplot.gih and the prologue files for postscript
> terminal are correctly found even if I move the Gnuplot.app. Great!
>
> Isn't it possible to make a dmg from which users can drag and drop
> Gnuplot.app to anywhere they want?

Yes, it's possible. On recent OS X this is kind of an "expert" option, 
since it may be non-obvious what double-clicking on a DMG file does 
(it'll get mounted, but likely hidden at the bottom of the finder 
window, so it can look as if "nothing happened"). However, I've now 
added a dmg file at

http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gnuplot/

(where the packaged gnuplot version is now 5.0.3).

> One minor problem. If I run
> gnuplot> help
> and type 'q', then 'Help topics available:' is shown, but
> it does not include 'terminal'. I don't now why. But
> gnuplot> help terminal
> still works. But in 'Subtopics available for terminal:', 'aqua'
> is missing but 'x11' exists.

Oops, yes, I included the wrong gih file. That's now fixed in

http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gnuplot/gnuplot-5.0.3-quartz.pkg
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gnuplot/gnuplot-5.0.3-quartz.dmg

Allin Cottrell