Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnuplot-5.4.0-1

[Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>]

Am 18.07.2020 um 09:55 schrieb Achim Gratz:
> Gnuplot version 5.4.0 is now available on Cygwin.  The upstream release
> notes are available at:
>
> http://www.gnuplot.info/ReleaseNotes_5_4.html
>
>
> Cygwin Notes
> ============
>
> The tutorial has been removed from the 5.4 branch of gnuplot, so it is
> no longer available in the package.
>
> The ggi terminal has been dropped from the build.  I am considering
> dropping both the gpic and the mif terminal in a further update as well.
>
> The wxt terminal is now available.
>
> The qt terminal still doesn't work on Cygwin due to either a Cygwin or
> Qt5 bug that is still under investigation.  If you want to help, please
> install the gnuplot-qt5 package and try to debug it.
>
>
> The packaging has been changed to allow more fine-grained control over
> dependencies.  Depending on which packages you install running plain
> "gnuplot" will dispatch different executables via the alternatives
> system.
>
> The gnuplot-base package provides no GUI terminal at all and will
> replace the gnuplot package unless you chose to install one of the other
> feature packages, this variant is always directly available as
> gnuplot-base.  This variant is most useful for scripted gnuplot
> invocations and for using it interactively in MinTTY with the sixelgd
> terminal.
>
> The gnuplot-X11 package resembles the previous gnuplot package most
> closely, the executable for this variant is gnuplot-X11 and depends on a
> relatively small number of X11 libraries.
>
> The gnuplot-wx package adds the wxt terminal and retains the X11
> terminal.  The executable for this variant is gnuplot-wx and it depends
> on an extensive list of GNOME libraries.
>
> The gnuplot-qt package provides the qt terminal and retains the X11
> terminal.  The executable for this variant is gnuplot-qt5 and of course
> depends on Qt5 libraries.  Please note that while gnuplot-qt5 does
> build, the qt terminal does not actually work yet, see above.
>
>
Hi Achim,
running setup, gnuplot-base is updated from 5.4 rc2 to 5.4, but package 
gnuplot has vanished. Tried 4 mirrors. Could there be a packaging problem?
Thomas