Re: Release timestamps for archaic tarballs

[sfeam <sf...@us...>]

On Saturday, 14 October 2017 23:28:27 Pieter-Tjerk de Boer wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 01:03:55PM -0700, sfeam via gnuplot-beta wrote:
> 
> > From the self-reported date in the source file version.c
> > gnuplot 1.1.0A		"Thu May 18 21:57:24 MST 1989"
> > gnuplot 2.0.0 		"Wed Mar  7 22:18:59 EST 1990"
> > gnuplot 3.5  		"Fri Aug 27 05:21:33 GMT 1993"
> > 
> > Yeah the timestamps probably don't mean much.
> 
> For what it's worth, I happen to have a gnuplot-2.0.tar.gz containing
> source files all dated 1989-01-25 (and .o files from 1990).
> 
> That .tar.gz itself is dated 1999-11-17, which presumably is when I
> downloaded this from "somewhere" on the Internet.
> 
> I also have a companion (?) file called gnuplot-2.0-X11.tar.Z , containing
> apparently only the X11 terminal (which is not in the other tar file), with
> file dates between March 14 and 27, 1990.
> 
> For any gnuplot archaeologist interested, I've put them temporarily at:
>   http://wwwhome.ewi.utwente.nl/~ptdeboer/tmp/gnuplot-2.0.tar.gz
>   http://wwwhome.ewi.utwente.nl/~ptdeboer/tmp/gnuplot-2.0-X11.tar.Z

Those are interesting, but confusing.
When I unpack the "gnuplot-2.0" tarball I find source that claims
to be version 1.1

  stonelion [2398] cat gnuplot-2.0/mainplot/version.c
  char version[] = "1.1.0";
  char date[] = "Mon Jan 26 16:58:24 EST 1987";

The contents of the source files I looked at appear to be older
than the corresponding files I have labeled "1.1.0A".
So I think despite the name of the tarball and the directory
it contains, you really have a tarball for the 1987 version 1.1 source.

However the other one gnuplot-2.0-X11.tar.Z
really does contain  x11 terminal driver source for version 2.0
dated Mar 14 1990.
As you note, the x11 terminal  is missing from the gnuplot source prior 
to version 3 that I already have.   So let's save that one file.  

	thanks!

		Ethan

> 
> Regards,
>   Pieter-Tjerk