Re: Ready for wrap-up everyone?

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

> > >  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)
> >
> >
> > I don't understand what this text tries to say nowadays. Therefore I propose
> > to delete it.
>
> Deleting what you don't understand might be dangerous.  I think it really
> should stay.

What is "Bruce Ravel's gnuplot-mode distribution"? An old binary
distribution for Windows? Why it contains info file then?

I don't see this text relevant for gnuplot 4.0. I don't think it has to be
"README.1st".


> [Note this is from INSTALL, and it goes under the heading "For the
> impatient."  This is not the principal installation instruction.]
>
> > First, tune term.h to choose which terminal drivers you wish to enable.
> > If you want to support gif output, you need to download, compile and
> > install the gd library : see term/gif.trm for details.
>
> > I don't think that's like that.
>
> What exactly in this do you think is "not like that"?

That an impatient user would go and edit something in term.h.

And if you install gd library, you will no get gif support nowadays -- as
said in FAQ.


> > Also, README.1ST speaks only about GIFs. What about deleting this file
> > and reference from README to FAQ?
>
> README.1st is the first-stop README file for the source distribution.
> It's not even necessarily being distributed with binary distributions.

It's nowhere written why and why should read this document.

For source distribution, one should read INSTALL. And that first paragraph
of of README.1ST is duplicated in section "For impatient user".

And README.1ST also writes how to convert images into gif -- i.e. user-space
utilities.

So the information there is a mess. I propose to delete the file completely,
unless someone gives it a sense.

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