[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 13:09 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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 (0009072) Thomas Orgis (reporter) - 2011-05-25 13:09
 https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4773#c9072 
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Well, it's a regression as in "The admin updated csw and told me to check
if things still work. I checked, and gnuplot didn't work anymore (as the
update migrated to the non-x11 version)."

Of course one could switch to the full-blown version, but apparently that
needs active intervention by the admin (I guess that my admin just went
with whatever was default for the update). Actually, although I am annoyed
by the wx terminal popping up per default instead of the x11 one, I would
be fine with CSW just featuring the full-blown build, including
functionality as upstream adds it.

The separation was because of the increased list of dependencies. Well,
for the plain x11 terminal, you would just have the dependencies of the old
gnuplot package. It's rather basic libx11 stuff. No fancy toolkit
involved.

If you really want to keep the strict separation between GUI and non-GUI,
I will have to ask my admin to install the full version. Of course that's a
solution. Other people being surprised by the upgrade switching off the x11
terminal would have to investigate the matter just like I did...

Another solution would be to shape the update path so that the full
gnuplot version is the default successor of the old gnuplot package ---
it's always nicer to users to add functionality that one can later disable
than the other way round.