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

[Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>]

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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