Re: old gnuplot releases - Re: Conversion

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

On Thursday, 19 October 2017 15:41:16 Petr Mikulik wrote:
> I was looking into my old disc (copies) in order to find old gnuplot releases, 
> but I was not lucky with any pre-beta-3.4. Disc space was expensive that 
> time...
> 
> Then searching web for old releases - unfortunately, most (all?) ftp sites
> I remember for gnuplot source code download do not exist any longer.
> Does somebody has them?
> BTW, here is the ftp list:
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.graphics.gnuplot/rIrNBLNwdEI
> showing
>     ftp://ftp.dartmouth.edu/pub/gnuplot/
>     ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gnuplot/
>     ftp://ftp.irisa.fr/pub/gnuplot/
>     ftp://ftp.ucc.ie/pub/gnuplot/
>     ftp://ftp.gnuplot.vt.edu/pub/gnuplot/
> 
>     http://members.theglobe.com/gnuplot/
>     http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Foothills/6647/
>     http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gnuplot/
> 
> 
> Finally, I have found old gnuplot source codes at two Linux distributions we
> were using long time ago - Slackware and RedHat (diskette-based distros :-).
> 
> Slackware:
> http://mirror.cslabs.clarkson.edu/slackware/slackware-3.4/source/xap/gnuplot/
> 1993-09-25 00:23       626 008  gnuplot-3.5.tar.gz
> 
> RedHat / Fedora:
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/gnuplot/
> 1999-11-07 16:57     1 319 233  gnuplot-3.7.1.tar.gz
> 2002-02-25 20:40     1 399 872  gnuplot-3.7.2.tar.gz
> 2002-12-12 14:00     1 418 889  gnuplot-3.7.3.tar.gz

Good work tracking those down.

It's a very minor point, but the internal timestamps in version.c
for those releases are
  
gnuplot-3.7.1	"Fri Oct 22 18:00:00 BST 1999"
gnuplot-3.7.2	"Sat Jan 19 15:23:37 GMT 2002"
gnuplot-3.7.3	"Thu Dec 12 13:00:00 GMT 2002"

Ah nostalgia.  I think 3.7.1 was the first version I used.

	Ethan

> 
> I have adjusted the dates according to the oldest file in the package,
> and put them here:
>      https://www.physics.muni.cz/~mikulik/gnuplot/
> 
> Can you add those 4 .tar.gz files to the git repo?
> 
> ---
> Petr Mikulik