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

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

On Sunday 29 January 2006 08:59 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

> Patchsets
> =========
> 
> I'm willing to spend time to get it into 4.2
> ==================================================
> 1267434         wxWidgets terminal
    Will add to cvs when SourceForge recovers
> 1218873         Change text rotating angle from int to float
    Will add to cvs when SourceForge recovers
    (or maybe sooner, given that recovery is now projected for May)
> 908040          Break PostScript prologue file out of post.trm
    Added to cvs

> Maybe, if someone else does the work :-)
> ==================================================
> 1244775         Isolines optional on datafile splots
> 1199186         strftime and strptime
> 1077726         true depth ordering for pm3d plots
    No change

> Good idea, but not for 4.2
> ==================================================
> 1143563         Place arbitrary objects in plots
    Added to cvs as EXPERIMENTAL (Petr talked me into it)
> 1252232         Allow UTF-8 input for normal postscript Type1 fonts
> 1252215         Font kerning in postscript terminal
> 1196485         OpenGL terminal driver
> 1105717         Add '=' special file to reread '-' inline data
    No change

> I cannot judge these
> =================================================
> 1384525         Small fixes to gd terminals
    Added to cvs
> 1398474         a driver for GD.pm
> 1294507         Fitting using CERN Minuit routines
> 1248308         Rexx scripting support
> 1233137         Font control in tkcanvas
> 1289725         handling double quotes in gnuplot-mode
    No change

> Reject for now; revisit later
> =============================
> 1318546         Add 'offset' and 'backhead' to 'set arrow'
    Added "backhead" (only) to cvs

> 1364114         Extension of Ethans patch: Clipping in Postscript terminal
> 1353539         Fix clipping for plots with canvas size != 1,1
> 1329098         New clipping code
> 1328103         Fix BoundingBox for large postscript plots
> 1104264         Fix buggy clipping of arrows in large splots
    Closed - made obsolete by clipping and 'set term post size'

> 1206823         Boxed text labels
    Closed - nobody liked it but me :-(

> 1030055         add user-specified colors to emf.trm
> 1024305         pie graphs (work in progress)
> 982765          Patch for AI (Adobe Illustrator) term
    Closed - made obsolete by various features in current cvs

> 1027032         Connect gnuplot_x11 to exterior application window
    Being re-worked by Daniel

> 1356114         set term ... size <foo>,<baz>
> 1321476         Draw zeroaxis at specified positions
> 1262281         Povray terminal driver
> 1251204         Real 3d perspectivic look to splot
> 1193448         Use allterm.h for texinfo documentation
> 1185346         Autoscaling with constraint on final range.
> 1123355         Support a header file in epslatex terminal
> 1052938         Fix incorrect alignment of rotated multiline text
> 1044573         change density of generated tics
> 936695          Some new logos
> 760421          plot smooth, with set log y
> 633724          new terminals:Python/Tk and Ruby/Tk
> 632289          new dgrid3d options: scaling and range
> 588805          external functions via plugins
> 551439          plot ... index by name instead of number
    No change

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