Re: Ready for wrap-up everyone?

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

> > Is the information in README and INSTALL still up-to-date?
>
> There's a pending change to INSTALL that would summarize versions and
> download URLs for all the optional support libraries.  A user complained
> (rightfully, IMHO), that "hiding" that information in the various *.trm
> files is not a particularly good plan, at least not for a release version.

Yes, and these INSTALL* look a bit unorganized, that's why my inclination
towards html. Anyway, INSTALL should probably have a table of contents.

> > Should gnuplot.sf.net / Files be mentioned too?
>
> I guess it would also make sense to declare SF.net our primary download
> site.  They have significantly larger pipes than any of the alternatives.

I agree. All others can be "secondary" -- but still keep them, as they
contain all previous gnuplot releases.



> > I think that for OS/2 and Windows distributions, there will be FAQ.html.
> > Web browser is always on these platforms.
>
> A text file browser is, too.  So what?
>
> What about a compromise: keep FAQ.html on the web only (and in the
> separate "docs in all formats" tarball), and add a pointer to its URL to
> the plain-text edition of the FAQ.

FAQ are on web in all 3 (html, pdf, txt) formats.
Ok, for binary releases, we can put a copy of FAQ.txt and FAQ.html; that
will satisfy everybody.

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Small problem: FAQ.txt is not nicely produced by "lynx -dump" as in
Makefile, at least by my "Lynx Version 2.8.4rel.1" -- there are some
spurious citations like [18] to table of links at the end of the text
document. Somebody knows how to remove that? Or how to use a "-dump" feature
by "links"?

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Other thing: how will gnuplot homepage be maintained? Will it be a mirror
(automatic mirror by cron?) of gnuplot.sf.net, where more people have ssh
access to? That's better than redirect?

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