Re: [Gnuplot-info] problem of pgnuplot+ wgnuplot use from current octave

[Michael G. <mic...@gm...>]

On 12/12/07, Hans-Bernhard Br=F6ker <HBB...@t-...> wrote:
> Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
>
> > I read the previous proposal of by the Michael.
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1627936&gr=
oup_id=3D2055&atid=3D302055
>
> Ah, finally we get to know what that "Michael's pgnuplot" you've been
> talking about actually is.
>
> It's not pgnuplot at all.  It's actually a native console version of the
> real program.  To reduce confusion, such a version should really be
> called "gnuplot" (no leading "w", nor "p").
>
> > Why the pgnuplot has not been replaced by the Michael's one?
>
> For no particular reason other than that apparently nobody on the
> gnuplot team felt comfortable enough committing such a major change to
> the MS Windows portion of the code --- we simply have no-one with
> sufficient programming skills on that forsaken platform (and available
> free time) to do it.
>
> About the best option to change that would be volunteers to work on that
> area of the code.

Since april, I enhanced my patch with various fixes and upgraded it to
gnuplot 4.2.2. For better visibility and maintenance, the patch is currentl=
y
available under SVN at
http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-forge/admin/Wi=
ndows/msvc/libs/
(current version is gnuplot-4.2.2.diff).

As my intention is to build a gnuplot version that is octave-friendly, the
patch contains a (very) few things that are octave-specific (like for insta=
nce
the modification of the gnuplot version string, to be license compliant).

Michael.