Re: 5.2 rc2 tarball now available

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

On Friday, 14 July, 2017 07:36:26 Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> > 6) Any other known issues?
> >
> >     Ethan
> >
> This is not an issue but documentation problem for source distribution.
> In source distribution, there is a file named "INSTALL".
> It is well written but some parts are obsoleted or inadequate.
> 
> e.g.
> 
> 1. 
> Unix, configure
> ---------------
>     
> TERMLIBS="-lX11" ./configure
> is required for wxwidgets but is not described
> 
> 2.
> MS-Windows
> ----------
> 
> There's no installer for gnuplot, so if you want a desktop link,
> program manager group or an association of *.plt or *.gpl files to
> wgnuplot, you'll have to do all that yourself.
> 
> The gnuplot for windows has installer now.
> 
> 
> *********************
> There are much points which are not up-to-date.

Good point.
The FAQ, the man page, and the LaTeX tutorial are even more out of date.
Contributions are welcome for all of these.

The same is true for the web site.
The front page is not bad, but the linked pages are getting stale.


> Is it better open a bug ticket for "INSTALL" being up-to-date?

A bug ticket is less useful than a patch containing new text.
Or contribute new text by posting it here on the mailing list.

	Ethan



> Tatsuro