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

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> 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

I can't reproduce this.  Could this be an old version the person is using and the bug fixed in the mean time?  (I think the "key" patch is from after 4.1, is it not?... 2005-07-29)

Dan

"Using gnuplot 4.1 patch level 0 under either windows
2000 or Red Hat 9, the following lines cause gnuplot to
crash,

set key below noautotitles
plot x"