Re: Re: Gnuplot 5.4.7 release tarball available for testing

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

Hi Peter

Preparation zip compressed binary is easy.
I will prepare installer version, 7zip, and zip packages for 5.4.7 and later

Tatsuro

> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> From: "pm" <mi...@ph...>
> To: "Tatsuro MATSUOKA" <tma...@ya...>
> Cc: "beta" <gnu...@li...>
> Date: 2023/05/19 金 23:52
> Subject: Re: Gnuplot 5.4.7 release tarball available for testing
> 
> 
>  	Hello Tatsuro,
> 
> > I have executed the test build on windows (MinGW64).
> 
> I see you upload the Windows binary also as a compressed 7z file. Would not be 
> the traditional zip file more portable? Recently, I wanted to upgrade an older 
> gnuplot on a Windows machine without admin privileges, but Windows 10 cannot 
> unzip 7z natively.
> 
> Tech note: the EXAFS software Athena uses gnuplot with wxt terminal for 
> drawing, but on that Windows 10 machine the cross of the ruler ("r" hotkey) is 
> invisible (white cross on white background?), for all windows gnuplots 
> downloadable as zip files. Thus peak distance measurement is difficult. I 
> wonder whether it was a problem on only that machine or the problem is more 
> frequent.
> 
> Greetings, Petr
>