On Wednesday 30 January 2008 05:02:43 pm Alexander K. Hansen
wrote:
> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> |> Our texshop package doesn't depend on
> |> TeX, for example, even though it relies on it.
> |
> | That would be handy for gnuplot as well.
> |
> |> I've been opposed to packages forcing people to
install TeX just for doc
> |> generation. I think such packages should build
their docs separately
> |> from the main build. In the case of gnuplot,
though, I'm not 100% sure
> |> that it doesn't use TeX: there are a few
TeX-related terminal types
> |> which may not be enabled if the package is built
in the absence of TeX.
> |
> | I know a bit of gnuplot internals (I wrote a ConTeXt
terminal for
> | gnuplot, based on the one for LaTeX and metapost),
and neither of
> | those terminals depends on LaTeX (they are all
compiled
> | unconditianally into gnuplot). The conditionally
compiled terminals
> | include: X11, Aqua, Windows, wxt (depends on
pangocairo, freetype
> | etc.), png/jpg (depend on glib), etc. ... (I can ask
on the gnuplot
> | mailing list to confirm that if that would be of any
help.)
> |
> | LaTeX terminal only outputs pure LaTeX (ascii)
documents, without
> | trying to compile them. Of course one cannot compile
the resulting
> | document without LaTeX (just as one cannot see SVG
graphics without a
> | proper viewer), but that's not something for which
gnuplot should
> | require TeX to be installed. The olny dependency I
know about is
> | compilation of PDF documentation.
> |
> | I can understand that xetex or other packages (which
were not in
> | teTeX, but are now in TeX Live) might require the
proper TeX to be
> | installed, but for gnuplot this is really not the
case.
> |
> | Mojca
>
> Thanks for the information on gnuplot. I'll
investigate how to get it
> to build its docs separately and post back in this
thread. I've just
> taken over maintainership of LyX (lyx-qt), and I would
like to modify it
> not to enforce an explicit tetex dependency, either.
>
>
OK, I've put package description files in my experimental
area:
http://www.finkdeveloper.net/svn/users/akh/experimental/
for a gnuplot[-nox] that builds docs that need tetex in a
separate package.
If people think it's OK, I'll issue an update (with revision
2) to the
unstable tree.
--
Alexander K. Hansen
akh AT finkproject DOT org
Fink User Liaison and Documenter
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