From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnuplot-5.4.0-1
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 18:45:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bb28af15-52b0-26b1-0ea0-2f4ffa067382@towo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f418c2fb-f463-a8c3-8c96-289a567a32b1@towo.net>
Am 18.07.2020 um 18:40 schrieb Thomas Wolff:
> Am 18.07.2020 um 18:31 schrieb Thomas Wolff:
>> 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.
> Errh, which you explained above, sorry. Anyhow, gnuplot.exe did not
> get installed.
OK, it's called gnuplot-base now. Is it a good idea to drop plain
gnuplot as an invocation name?
By the way, the next release of mintty will also support GNUTERM=tek40xx
Kind regards,
Thomas
>
>> Tried 4 mirrors. Could there be a packaging problem?
>> Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-18 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-18 7:55 Achim Gratz
2020-07-18 16:31 ` Thomas Wolff
2020-07-18 16:40 ` Thomas Wolff
2020-07-18 16:45 ` Thomas Wolff [this message]
2020-07-18 17:45 ` Brian Inglis
2020-07-18 19:37 ` Brian Inglis
2020-07-18 19:47 ` Brian Inglis
2020-07-18 20:09 ` Achim Gratz
2020-07-18 20:38 ` Brian Inglis
2020-07-18 20:01 ` Achim Gratz
2020-07-18 19:56 ` Achim Gratz
2020-07-18 20:09 ` Thomas Wolff
2020-07-20 6:00 ` Mark Geisert
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