[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnuplot-5.4.0-1

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnuplot-5.4.0-1

[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.


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

[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. Tried 4 mirrors. Could there be a packaging problem?
Thomas

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

[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.

> Tried 4 mirrors. Could there be a packaging problem?
> Thomas
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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnuplot-5.4.0-1

[Thomas Wolff]

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

[Brian Inglis]

On 2020-07-18 10:45, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> 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.

>>> 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?

Release notes suggest there should be a file /var/lib/alternatives/gnuplot to
define a symlink /bin/gnuplot to /etc/alternatives/gnuplot and that symlinks to
/bin/gnuplot-base.

Please check if /etc/postinstall/gnuplot.sh.done exists and completed
successfully in /var/log/setup.log.full or /var/log/setup.log and the
alternatives were created successfully, as above.

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

[Brian Inglis]

On 2020-07-18 11:45, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2020-07-18 10:45, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> 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

>>>>> Depending on which packages you install running plain
>>>>> "gnuplot" will dispatch different executables via the alternatives
>>>>> system.

>>>> 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?

> Release notes suggest there should be a file /var/lib/alternatives/gnuplot to
> define a symlink /bin/gnuplot to /etc/alternatives/gnuplot and that symlinks to
> /bin/gnuplot-base.
> 
> Please check if /etc/postinstall/gnuplot.sh.done exists and completed
> successfully in /var/log/setup.log.full or /var/log/setup.log and the
> alternatives were created successfully, as above.

Script to setup postinstall alternatives is actually called gnuplot-base.dash
and the executable name does not look as if alternatives will use it:

$ tar -x -O \
-f mirror/x86_64/release/gnuplot/gnuplot-base/gnuplot-base-5.4.rc2-0.tar.xz \
	etc/postinstall/gnuplot-base.dash
/usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/gnuplot gnuplot
/usr/bin/gnuplot-{BB}.exe 10

AFAIK alternatives is not going to do anything special with gnuplot-*{BB}*.exe:
perhaps intended to be generated with "*$*{BB}" == "base" but missing *$*?

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

[Brian Inglis]

On 2020-07-18 13:37, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2020-07-18 11:45, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> On 2020-07-18 10:45, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>> 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
> 
>>>>>> Depending on which packages you install running plain
>>>>>> "gnuplot" will dispatch different executables via the alternatives
>>>>>> system.
> 
>>>>> 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?
> 
>> Release notes suggest there should be a file /var/lib/alternatives/gnuplot to
>> define a symlink /bin/gnuplot to /etc/alternatives/gnuplot and that symlinks to
>> /bin/gnuplot-base.
>>
>> Please check if /etc/postinstall/gnuplot.sh.done exists and completed
>> successfully in /var/log/setup.log.full or /var/log/setup.log and the
>> alternatives were created successfully, as above.
> 
> Script to setup postinstall alternatives is actually called gnuplot-base.dash
> and the executable name does not look as if alternatives will use it:
> 
> $ tar -x -O \
> -f mirror/x86_64/release/gnuplot/gnuplot-base/gnuplot-base-5.4.rc2-0.tar.xz \
> 	etc/postinstall/gnuplot-base.dash
> /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/gnuplot gnuplot
> /usr/bin/gnuplot-{BB}.exe 10
> 
> AFAIK alternatives is not going to do anything special with gnuplot-*{BB}*.exe:
> perhaps intended to be generated with "*$*{BB}" == "base" but missing *$*?

Yup, should have checked further earlier - missing *$* before {BB} in
postinstall/preremove alternatives script generation:

$ fgrep -C1 alternatives gnuplot-5.4.rc2-0.src/gnuplot-5.4.rc2-0.cygport
                    cat > ${PN}-${BB}.postinstall <<EOF
/usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/gnuplot gnuplot
/usr/bin/gnuplot-{BB}.exe ${APRIO}							<<<!!!
EOF
--
                    cat > ${PN}-${BB}.preremove <<EOF
/usr/sbin/alternatives --remove gnuplot /usr/bin/gnuplot-{BB}.exe	<<<!!!
EOF

Need a 5.4.0-2 soon!

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

[Achim Gratz]

Thomas Wolff writes:
>> 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

The postinstall scripts should install gnuplot as the alternative to the
"highest functionality" package you have installed (gnuplot-base,
gnuplot-X11, gnuplot-wxt or even gnuplot-qt5 as it were).  If you've had
installed the test packages before (when there was still a bug in those
scripts) there might have been a bogus entry in the alternatives system
that takes precedence, just remove it.


Regards,
Achim.
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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnuplot-5.4.0-1

[Achim Gratz]

Brian Inglis writes:
> Script to setup postinstall alternatives is actually called gnuplot-base.dash
> and the executable name does not look as if alternatives will use it:

That was an error in the test packages that has since been fixed and had
been noted in the announcement of the test package.  It sometimes helps
to read these announcements…


Regards,
Achim.
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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnuplot-5.4.0-1

[Achim Gratz]

Brian Inglis writes:
> Need a 5.4.0-2 soon!

Which part of "it's fixed" is confusing you?  Look in the release
package, not the RC2.


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

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 18.07.2020 um 21:56 schrieb Achim Gratz:
> Thomas Wolff writes:
>>> 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
> The postinstall scripts should install gnuplot as the alternative to the
> "highest functionality" package you have installed (gnuplot-base,
> gnuplot-X11, gnuplot-wxt or even gnuplot-qt5 as it were).  If you've had
> installed the test packages before (when there was still a bug in those
> scripts) there might have been a bogus entry in the alternatives system
> that takes precedence, just remove it.
rm /etc/alternatives/gnuplot and reinstalling gnuplot-base with setup 
fixes the issue, thanks

>
>
> Regards,
> Achim.

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

[Brian Inglis]

On 2020-07-18 14:09, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Brian Inglis writes:
>> Need a 5.4.0-2 soon!
> 
> Which part of "it's fixed" is confusing you?  Look in the release
> package, not the RC2.

Sorry - thought I was looking at a recent setup.ini but not recent enough, and
didn't take in there was only test no curr, and rc2 was not just part of the
upstream release due to other distros' "decorative" version suffixes! My bad!
Blame a brainworm or maybe just a Brian-worm! ;^>

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

[Mark Geisert]

Hi Achim,

Achim Gratz wrote:
> 
> 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 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.

If this refers to the issue of not being able to open a Qt terminal for gnuplot 
output, I investigated this a year and a half ago.  We opened a Qt bug for it
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-74486 but it has languished.

I'll revisit this issue and see if I can submit a patch for Cygwin's Qt package 
or gnuplot or whatever would work.  Thanks for the reminder.

..mark