[bug-notifications] [gnuplot 0004773]: The simple X11 terminal is disabled in gnuplot-nowx.

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https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4773 
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Reported By:                Thomas Orgis
Assigned To:                dam
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Project:                    gnuplot
Issue ID:                   4773
Category:                   packaging
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             2011-05-25 10:18 CEST
Last Modified:              2011-05-25 10:48 CEST
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Summary:                    The simple X11 terminal is disabled in gnuplot-nowx.
Description: 
The old version of gnuplot had the simple X11 terminal builtin, and that is
a very useful one for previewing plots, or scripting gnuplot for live
display.
In any case, it was a feature that was present and is now missing after a
CSW update.

I understand that there is the more advanced X11/WxWidgets interactive
terminal and that for that there is a separate package now, but I don't
need that one (it's rather slow and overkill for my uses). Would you please
restore the functionality of the gnuplot package to include the normal
old-style x11 terminal?

As it is now, the recent update is a serious regression for users that
actually use gnuplot themselves (or a tool that uses gnuplot's x11 terminal
for live display). I hope there is no new packaging policy that forbids
basic X11 libs as dependency for the normal package...

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 (0009071) dam (administrator) - 2011-05-25 10:48
 https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4773#c9071 
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Hi Thomas,

the idea was to make one minimal package and one with full features
enabled. Is there a specific reason why you don't want to use the
wxwidget-version? As previously there was only one version the splitting in
one without X11 and one with wxwidgets is IMHO not really a regression.
However, I will take a look at how many additional dependencies result in a
simple x11 dependency for the base package.


Beste Grüße

  -- Dago