Yo Hal! On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 13:26:54 -0800 Hal Murray <hmur...@megapathdsl.net> wrote:
> Gary said:
> >> 2) It drags in a big pile of stuff, starting with gnuplot.
> > No.
>
> At least one of us is confused.
>
> buildprep installs gnuplot unconditionally. Perhaps you mean that it
> doesn't need to do that. But currently it does.
buildprep is optional. We already agreed to make gnuplot optional in
buildprep.
Next?
> What does ntpviz do without gnuplot and/or why would I want to do
> that?
It makes plot files and dumps statistics summaries. The plots can then
be plotted elsewrhere. I forsee a future option where it just outputs the
text summaries. Just way down on my list.
> If I have to move the processed data to another system to view
> it,
Some will, some will not. Some might use ssh to run a server copy of
gnuplot from the ntpd host. Do with it as you wish.
> why not copy the raw log files and do all the processing there?
The plot files are potentially a lot smaller.
> The old text in INSTALL had comments about something being needed at
> run time or only at build tiime. That information is no longer in
> buildprep.
Yeah. Patches welcome.
RGDS
GARY
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