Recent changes to 16: Release pre-compiled binary files with supporting libs for major OSs.

#16 Release pre-compiled binary files with supporting libs for major OSs.

Alan W. Irwin — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 20:39:13 -0000

status: wont-fix --> open-accepted

#16 Release pre-compiled binary files with supporting libs for major OSs.

Alan W. Irwin — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 20:35:52 -0000

status: open --> wont-fix
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#16 Release pre-compiled binary files with supporting libs for major OSs.

Hazen Babcock — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 01:04:49 -0000

It is pretty easy to install on linux already using a package manager, so I assume you are mostly referring to Windows? I agree that is not the easiest library to install on Windows. However, it is hard for us to provide a binary as (I don't think) they are interchangeable. For example if we provided a library that was compiled with MinGW could you compile into another application using MSVC?

Release pre-compiled binary files with supporting libs for major OSs.

leoking — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:47:08 -0000

I recently found this comparison between gnuplot and plplot:

http://blog.debroglie.net/2011/12/10/plotting-libraries/

I was astonished to know that plplot is so much more powerful than gnuplot.

However, gnuplot is still far more popular than plplot. I think the main obstacle preventing the popularity of plplot is that it lacks workable binary releases for major OSs.

I can see plplot provides many routines (MiniGW/Cygwin/Borland) to build its binary. However, I feel a normal user (not a developer of plplot) does not really care about which routine plplot is built on as long as it works.

The building process is still far more complex for normal users to go through. These users might not be able to contribute code for the plplot development but they can provide more application examples of charts drawn using plplot.

Really hope such a good project could get more popularity.

Release pre-compiled binary files with supporting libs for major OSs.

leoking — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:47:08 -0000

Ticket 16 has been modified: Release pre-compiled binary files with supporting libs for major OSs.
Edited By: Alan W. Irwin (airwin)
Status updated: u'open' => u'wont-fix'

Release pre-compiled binary files with supporting libs for major OSs.

leoking — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:47:08 -0000

Ticket 16 has been modified: Release pre-compiled binary files with supporting libs for major OSs.
Edited By: Alan W. Irwin (airwin)
Status updated: u'wont-fix' => u'open-accepted'