Re: Gnuplot module: Patching of Gnuplot binary still needed?

[Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 23:04, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear ConTeXt folks,
>
>
> I read about the Gnuplot module [1] and I am wondering whether patching
> the Gnuplot binary is still necessary.

Yes.

Can you please send the same message to the gnuplot mailing list?

I have sent the patch upstream once in 2006, but they had two
arguments against including the patch:

1.) nobody from the development team was willing to install anything
else but tetex to try it out (and the module doesn't work under tetex)

2.) they assumed that I was the only user

The first point should hopefully be resolved by now (module should
work under MikTeX or TeX Live out-of-the-box and hopefully TeX Live is
enough widespread by now), but if anyone wants to have the module
included, somebody else but me needs to write to the gnuplot mailing
list and ask the developers if they are willing to include the patch.
(By pointing them to
https://github.com/mojca/gnuplot/blob/master/term/context.trm first.)

I'm willing to upload the patch, but it makes no sense for me to
regularly upload new patches to their
feature-requests-and-bug-tracking system if they ignore them for ages
...
I admit that the number of ConTeXt/Gnuplot users might be small, alone
for the fact that the number of ConTeXt users (several thousand?) is
much smaller than the number of LaTeX addicts, but I would be glad to
see 20 users of metafont terminal when not even the output of metapost
terminal is satisfactory (it could be improved considerably).


Apart from that ... I was working with Peter Hedwig on the ConTeXt
part of his lua/TikZ terminal (that has already been included in
gnuplot). We got it running, with some issues like general font
loading scheme, but the work was never polished to the end (stalled at
some point). We could revive that thread as well.

> Github is currently down and

It works here, but the main gnuplot code is located on fontforge (in
CVS). Github only includes a patched version of gnuplot that contains
context support.

Mojca

> therefore cannot check if the code is included. But judging from
>
>        gnuplot> help terminal
>        […]
>        Subtopics available for terminal:
>            canvas            cgm               corel             dpu414
>            dumb              dxf               eepic             emf
>            emtex             epslatex          epson_180dpi      epson_60dpi
>            epson_lx800       fig               gif               gpic
>            hp2623a           hp2648            hp500c            hpdj
>            hpgl              hpljii            hppj              imagen
>            jpeg              latex             mf                mif
>            mp                nec_cp6           okidata           pbm
>            pcl5              pdfcairo          png               pngcairo
>            pop               postscript        pslatex           pstex
>            pstricks          push              qms               regis
>            starc             svg               tandy_60dpi       tek40xx
>            tek410x           texdraw           tgif              tkcanvas
>            tpic              vttek             wxt               x11
>            xlib              xterm
>
>        $ gnuplot --version
>        gnuplot 4.4 patchlevel 0
>
> it appears it is still required. Did some send this patch already
> upstream for inclusion?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
> [1] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Gnuplot
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