Re: Announcement, first draft

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Lars Hecking wrote:

>  
> >  DISTRIBUTION SITES
> >  ==================
>  
>  CTAN is missing. 

Added.

>  They, and presumably the French and Australian mirrors, too,
>  are mirroring from ftp.ucc.ie/pub/gnuplot (--> my job to update that).

So: you write and post the Announcement, then? ;-)

> >   OTHER:
> >   
> >        Source and binary distributions for the Amiga will be available
> >        on Aminet http://ftp.wustl.edu/~aminet/ and its mirrors as
> >        gfx/misc/gnuplot-4.0.0bin.lha
> >        gfx/misc/gnuplot-4.0.0doc.lha
> >        gfx/misc/gnuplot-4.0.0src.lha
>    
>  Not sure I'll be able to create these. I think I have never ever tried
>  to compile the 3.8 branch on the Amiga.

I'll turn that from a "will be" to a "might become" then.

> >  THE CONTRIB SECTION
> >  ===================
> > 
> >  An improved gnuplot mode for X/Emacs by Bruce Ravel is available from
> >  http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/gnuplot-mode/Welcome.html.
> >  It has already been added to the development version of gnuplot.
>  
>  It is now part of gnuplot.

Updated.
> >  The gnuplot team would like to thank all who have contributed to this
> >  release through discussions, suggestions, bug reports, and patches,
> >  on Usenet and mailing lists.  Special thanks go to Juergen von Hagen
> >  who maintained the gnuplot FAQ for q while.  To Ethan Merritt and
> 
>  s/q/a/

Yep ;-)

> >  [1] The gif terminal driver requires third party software. Because the
> >      version of gd library currently at http://www.boutell.com/gd/ does
> >      NOT create gif images, we are providing gd library version 1.3 and 1.4
> >      at from the gnuplot distribution sites.
>  
>  Should we really supply them, or should we stop that?

Why stop now, of all times?  This footnote was in the Announcement of
the 3.7 versions, too (of which this obviously is an edited version ;-),
and the relevant patents are due to expire June this year.

> >  [2] the png terminal driver requires third party software.
[...]
>  The URLs are changed now, I think.
> 
>  http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
>  http://www.gzip.org/zlib/

OK.  Updated.

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.