Re: context terminal now in gnuplot's CVS

From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Ethan A Merritt <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: context terminal now in gnuplot's CVS
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:09:27 +0100	[thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <1322599357.3697.5.camel@mattotaupa>

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 21:42, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear Mojca,
>
> Am Sonntag, den 06.11.2011, 15:19 +0100 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
>
>> After 5 years (actually almost 6 - the first t-gnuplot.tex code has
>> been sent to me by Peter Münster on 2nd January 2006) gnuplot
>> developers finally included context terminal into their CVS repository
>> today.
>>
>> The release of gnuplot 4.4.4 was initially planned for around October,
>> which means that it should probably be out sometime soon.
>
> Unfortunately it looks like the ConTeXt terminal was not included in
> version 4.4.4 released on November 14th [1] and is just planned for
> version 4.5 [2]. Can you confirm this?
>
> [1] http://gnuplot.info/announce.4.4.4
> [2] http://gnuplot.cvs.sourceforge.net/gnuplot/gnuplot/NEWS?view=markup

Yes. Sadly, for some reason the code was only included into CVS, but
not into the 4.4.4 branch. The version 4.4.4 has been release "before
I realized" (I was planning to ask about inclusion into 4.4 branch,
but even if I did, there would be no guarantee for inclusion). There
is a chance to include it into 4.4.6 if that version gets released at
all (which means 5-6 months; it is unclear whether there will be
another 4.4.6 or not; if not, it might take longer to release the next
slightly incompatible version), but that might need an extra request
to the gnuplot development team, and possibly some code improvements
(who knows). I'm CC-ing one of the core developers. He can probably
correct me if needed.

The terminal will almost certainly be included in 4.6.

However I believe that Tatsuro Matsuoka's binaries for windows from
    http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/gnuplot/Eng/winbin/
should contain the context terminal which makes it a lot more easy to
use, at least on windows. On unix-es it is at least somewhat easier to
compile gnuplot. Yes, having it available from the linux distribution
might help, but at least now that it is in CVS it will be a lot faster
to get it into released version than it was to get it into CVS ...

Mojca

PS (not to be taken too seriously): ... and then I will probably move
to ROOT or Alan's new metapost macros and stop using gnuplot ;) ROOT
currently has no export to TeX, so it's another challenge.
    http://root.cern.ch
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