Re: AW: Is minimal required platform Windows 7 only for the 5.3 or later for gnuplot for windows?

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

>>  Thanks for the reply.

>>  I understand the situation.
>> 
>>  I really appreciate your successive efforts specially on gnuplot for 
> windows.
> 
> Me too, Bastian has done a very nice job.
> 
> But your "support for XP" question is similar to one I asked a while 
> back about support for mingw ("plain old" minGW as opposed to 
> MingGW-w64). It may well be time to drop support for old Windows-related 
> software, but I think this should be made clear in the ChangeLog and among the 
> "config" files in the source tree. You cannot compile current gnuplot 
> for Windows using plain old minGW any more, though the presence of files such as 
> config.mgw suggests otherwise.
> 
> Allin Cottrell

http://gnuplot.10905.n7.nabble.com/5-2-rc2-tarball-now-available-tp20707p20758.html
Bastian> There's now a revision of the MS-Windows INSTALL section in CVS for 5.2. 

Now windows section in "INSTALL" tells that config/mingw/Makefile is for MinGW-w64/MSYS2.

I think that config/mingw/Makefile is also revised in corresponding way.

Tatsuro