Re: Making demo programs more evident...

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

> It may be nice to make more apparent the existence of the demo programs.
> The demos are on the web page now, which is great.  However, I'm
> thinking from the perspective of a new user like a student in an
> academic environment.  The demos are an eye-opener when it comes to the
> initially arcane command line interface, yet I think a new user who
> doesn't have super user privilege may never realize there are some nice
> demos that would really help in the learning curve.  Maybe a "help demo"
> or "help demos" would be nice to explain how to access the scripts.

That's good idea. Put 'help demo' into gnuplot docs, with link to web, and
to how to running from a properly installed gnuplot.

Hmm on "unix" .. "make install" does not install demos, so there is not
"properly" installed unix. Using a rpm package for gnuplot ... turns you to
demos for an old gnuplot.
=> ordinary people (who do just "make install" have no demos avaible).

INSTALL writes ./configure does not want to decide where to put demos -- why
not?

/usr/local/share/gnuplot/... gnuplot is already writing there, why not use
it for demo?


BTW, "make install" installs big unstriped binaries, even for the final
gnuplot 4.0.0. It's not polite for harddisks of our users. I hope no other
app do that!
	Who knows about "make install-strip", and who actually use it?

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