[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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