Re: Ready for wrap-up everyone?

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> *) HB or Lars make a source tarball.
>
>    Circulate that in private (Lars' ftp server?  Or the project home
>    directory at sf.net?) to check for last-minute glitches.

Where do the released files go?
- sourceforge
- darthmouth??
- CTAN

> *) Distribute work on binary packages for PCs.
>
>    One important note: I don't think we can provide binaries with
>    the pdf driver compiled in.  It's "non-commercial use only".

If someone proofs this, then binaries will be without this feature.

>    I would volunteer building the 32-bit DOS version (DJGPP).
>    Cygwin by Petr (both Unix gnuplot/X11 and Win32 wgnuplot/pgnuplot,
>                    in a single or two separate packages)?

I can organize the following:

1. OS/2 binary.

2. Mingw binary -- probably with two executables: one normal, the other with
PIPES defined for more unixish users

3. Cygwin+X11 by ./configure; make

>    'docs tarball' by Lars?

A prerelease of 1. and 2. is at www.sci.muni.cz/~mikulik/gnuplot/
I think FAQ should be replaced by FAQ.html
Any other thing proposed to be there?

>    All ready by, let's say, Friday this week?

Yes, till Friday.


Other comments:


*) File README.1st:

This text is to be deleted?

 Note 3
 ------
 some files from Bruce Ravel's gnuplot-mode distribution have
   not been included here, namely

   o INSTALL              (covered by gnuplot install instructions)
   o Win9x/INSTALL.Win9x
   o Win9x/pgnuplot.c     (already in src/win)
   o gnuplot.info         (can be created from docs/gnuplot.texi)
   o gpelcard.ps          (can be created from lisp/gpelcard.tex)
   o install-sh, mkinstalldirs  (provided by gnuplot)


*) README (several of them) vs README.html:
I remember someone has contributed html-ized version of README, where is
its end nowadays?

*) INSTALL (several of them):
Should be unified too.

*) FAQ vs FAQ.html:
I would prefer to enclose FAQ.html instead of the plain text FAQ.
I will please majority of users I guess.
Anyway, should the FAQ file be in gnuplot sources anyway? Maybe it could be
removed from there.


*) BUGS:
A note about Atari, Lars can remove that?


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