[MacPorts] #38321: gnuplot @4.6.1 Enhancement: add variant for old bitmap formats

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#38321: gnuplot @4.6.1 Enhancement: add variant for old bitmap formats
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  Reporter:  predoehl@…   |      Owner:  mojca@…
      Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal       |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports        |    Version:  2.1.3
Resolution:               |   Keywords:  haspatch
      Port:  gnuplot      |
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Comment (by mojca@…):

 The name {{{bmpterm}}} seems a bit weird to me. My first thought would be
 that it support the windows BMP file format.

 I would prefer to avoid an additional option in MacPorts completely and
 just make PBM terminal enabled by default, but option {{{--with-bitmap-
 terminals}}} enables lots of other completely obsolete terminals which
 only clutter {{{set term}}} when showing the list of available terminals
 and help confuse the user.

 Gnuplot version 4.6.2 is going to be release within a week. I suggest to
 add this option together with upgrade (possibly in two separate commits,
 but so that people won't have to upgrade/rebuild gnuplot twice), but I'm
 looking for other suggestions for the name:
 - bitmap_terminals (With this name I would probably consider PNG as a
 bitmap terminal and would want to enable that option to get PNG working.)
 - pbm
 - ... (?)

 For the description I would use something like "Enable PBM/Portable Bit
 Map (and other older bitmap terminals)".

 Another option would be to patch gnuplot in such a way that PBM would be
 enabled by default.

 Any thoughts?

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/38321#comment:3>
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