On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Someone (sorry for not knowing who) asked, if I'm not much mistaken, > about what do people complain about gnuplot, apart from it's GUI. Well, > I think gnuplot's greatest problem is it's license. Why? It complies > with the FSF's guides, OK, but I think it's annoying to have to patch > the sources every time you want to improve it. If it would be GPLed, I'm > sure more people would like to contribute with it.
And related to this is the fact that libreadline can't be incorporated -- the single most annoying thing, IMNSHO. Mind you, there are switches in ./configure that work (and are breaking people's copyrights if turned on), and there is rlwrap, but the former breaks when you try to tab complete a filename in single quotes (IIRC; as filenames need to be in gnuplot), and the latter breaks help and other things that need unbuffered terminal input. And I don't think the former saves a command line history in a history file, which readline can do (and rlwrap can do buggily). -- TimC Special Relativity: The person in the other queue thinks yours is moving faster.
