Re: What's left for a 4.2 release? [core code]

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

On Sunday 29 January 2006 08:54 pm, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> 
> Here is my evaluation of the state of the code base, and the
> collection of bugs/patches/feature-requests on SourceForge.

Updated 14 Apr 2006

> Core code
> ===========
> 
> Issues:
> 
>  - How many of the new options should be enabled by default?
>    Should any of them continue to be marked EXPERIMENTAL?

  Here's my scorecard from recent discussion on the list
  
   rectangles and other objects		keep as EXPERIMENTAL
   plot style image			remove warning
   verify every pixel coordinate	back out of cvs altogether
   general binary data file reading	mixed opinions
   X11 polygon info in binary		remove warning
   string variables			remove warning
   command line macros			remoce warning

>  - Can we confirm that the code builds and runs on amiga?  VMS?

   I successfully built recent cvs on VMS.  No word from any amiga fans.
   I propose we drop any claims of amiga support for gnuplot
   versions > 3.7 
   The code can stay, but no one knows if it works.

> Known bugs:
> 
>  - Clipping, particularly of arrows and filled polygons
>    This is the only known bug that I consider release-critical.

    Arrow clipping is now done in the core code.
    Filled rectangles are also clipped in the core (mostly).
    There are known problems with external libraries supporting 
    specific drivers (gd, pdf) but we may not be able to fix those.    

>  - Treatment of "missing" data as opposed to "invalid" data.
>    I think this is more a matter of poor documentation than an actual
>    bug, but I could be wrong.  In any event, it's not fixable until
>    someone can point to an unambiguous statement of what *should*
>    happen in both cases, and a reproducible example that doesn't act
>    that way. SF bugs #775810 #918793 #969322 #1403945

    No change
 
>  - Miscellaneous open bug reports on SourceForge

>    #1184989        set key below noautotitles; plot x -- crash
>    #1182499        set terminal doesn't automatically close output
>    #1058117        Legend Disappears on Some Plots
>    #1024394        bug on time/data format

    These are marked as assigned to broeker
    I believe they can be closed. Can you confirm this?  

>    #1346814        cannot unset mxtics for time data

    I think this one is user error rather than a bug.
    
>    #1408955        ytics have wrong date with ydata time and "using 2"
>    #1363641        dgrid3d / xrange interaction
>    #1158281        plotting a ternary function with undefined values
>    #1107709        plot [-1:1] x is plotted with asymmetric y-axis
>    #1042785        reversed axis range breaks filled curves
>    #1039309        Strange xtics on 'time' plot
>    #1004754        Tics and grid slightly outside border.
>     #992528        `set offset` can break `with filledcurves`
>     #634506        plotting a subrange of a contour plot

    No change


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