Aw: Re: 5.2 rc2 tarball now available

[Bastian M. <bma...@we...>]

> Gesendet: Freitag, 14. Juli 2017 um 01:48 Uhr
> Von: "Ethan A Merritt via gnuplot-beta" <gnu...@li...>
> An: gnu...@li..., "Tatsuro MATSUOKA" <tma...@ya...>
> Betreff: Re: 5.2 rc2 tarball now available
>
> 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 The FAQ, the man page, and the LaTeX tutorial are even more out of date.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
> 

There's now a revision of the MS-Windows INSTALL section in CVS for 5.2.

  Bastian