[17583] in Athena Bugs
Re: gnuplot help misinstalled and inconsistently located
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sun Feb 27 08:22:38 2000
Message-Id: <200002271322.IAA29268@mary-kay-commandos.mit.edu>
To: Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, gnu@MIT.EDU, f_l@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 20 Feb 2000 16:57:42 EST."
<200002202157.QAA14242@harlie.ne.mediaone.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 08:22:23 -0500
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
[ Dropped 6.033-ta's from the cc]
In message <200002202157.QAA14242@harlie.ne.mediaone.net>, Emil Sit writes:
>Hi,
>
>Would someone please take charge of maintaining gnuplot in some
>standardized location and handling user notification in a sane manner?
>We have been using gnuplot in 6.033 to plot various things and it
>would be simpler if we didn't have to worry about which platform has
>it where in our instructions.
Geeze.
This situation has gone on too long and is imnsho untenable. In my
capacity as a closet gnu-locker non-maintainer I have renamed gnuplot
to gnuplot.old in all cases and replaced it with an attachandrun
script executing it out of the gnuplot locker.
Perhaps this should be reverted for platforms that don't
have support in the gnuplot locker, though.
--jhawk
