What's left for a 4.2 release? [feature requests]

[Ethan A M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

Almost 3 years ago, we had a thread titled 
"What's left for a Version 4.0 release?"
It was useful in guiding the long process of readying the 4.0 official
release.  I am hoping that a similar thread will kick off the 4.2
release process.  I'm also hoping that this time it will take less
than a year to complete the process. We'll see.

Here is my evaluation of the state of the code base, and the
collection of bugs/patches/feature-requests on SourceForge.
I've split it into several parts:
   core code
   drivers
   patches
   feature requests

Feature Requests
================

Summary:
A suggestion with no actual code does not count for as much
as a real patchset.  That said, there are a few good ideas
on the SourceForge site that might be worth looking at. If the
implementation is easy enough, we might consider working on them
for 4.2. The following look like plausible candidates to me:

#1376595         Class and name strings of X Window
#1117724         [fit] access to resulting chisquare
#1078852         Flexible usage of geographic coordinates (ex. DD:MM:SS)
#674055          mouse coordinate read-out in multiplot mode



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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742