Re: "Official" binary release for Windows

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

--- On Thu, 2014/3/20, Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden> wrote:

> --- On Wed, 2014/3/19, John W. Eaton  wrote:
> 
> > On 03/07/2014 07:10 PM, John Donoghue wrote:
> > > On 03/07/2014 06:08 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> > >> Message: 3
> > >> Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 17:21:01 -0500
> > >> From: "John W. Eaton"<address@hidden>
> > >> To: octave maintainers mailing list<address@hidden>
> > >> Subject: "Official" binary release for Windows
> > >> Message-ID:<address@hidden>
> > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> > >>
> > >> I'd like to start making the Windows installer available from
> > >> ftp.gnu.org.  Is it ready for that now?  Or are there some significant
> > >> problems that need to be fixed before we should make "official" releases?
> > >>
> > >> jwe
> > >
> > > I havent had any issues recently with the build except with gcc.
> > >
> > > I had added a readme html file for the install that may want to be
> > > looked at / modified prior to distribution, depending on what is
> > > distributed or not.
> > >
> > > Would it also make sense to list in it all the packages that are known
> > > to work and compile in windows ?
> > 
> > Sure.
> > 
> > Is there any good reason that openblas should not be used by default?
> > 
> > Are there any significant issues remaining?  Is it time to make the 
> > 3.8.1 binary available?
> > 
> 
> I have tested the print feature of gnuplot graphics_toolkit using 
> octave-3.8.1 binary for windows downloaded from 
> http://octave.osuv.de/3.8/windows/  
>  
> octave:3> graphics_toolkit gnuplot
> octave:4> fplot (@cos, [0, 2*pi])
> octave:5> print -depsc cos.eps
> warning: print.m: epstool binary is not available.
> Some output formats are not available.
> octave:6> print -dpng cos.png
> octave:3> graphics_toolkit gnuplot
> octave:4> fplot (@cos, [0, 2*pi])
> octave:5> print -depsc cos.eps
> warning: print.m: epstool binary is not available.
> Some output formats are not available.
> octave:6> print -dpng cos.png
> 
> Both cos.eps and cos.png have finite file size but do not have graphs.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tatsuro

I have switched gnuplot_binary from  octave bin directory to gnuplot-4.6.3 
downloaded from gnuplot official site.

This time, both cos.eps and cos.png had correct image.

Regards

Tatsuro