Re: What's left for a 4.2 release?

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

On Friday 09 June 2006 02:32 pm, Hans-Bernhard Br=F6ker wrote:
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> I for one am in the process of changing jobs and towns right now,=20
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> free time to spend on gnuplot.  I.e. unless we can find somebody else to=
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> actually do it, nothing will happen for at least about one more month.
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> Any takers?

The rest of us do not know in detail what is required.
There are a few obvious things to start the process that should
not take so very much time:
 - create a new cvs branch containing the release candidate code base
 - modify VERSION, etc, to refer to itself correctly
 - some variant of `make cvs-dist` followed by placing the resulting
   tarball on the "files" page of SourceForge

The existence of a release candidate snapshot would already make
a lot of people happy.

There are a few more obvious things that everyone can help
with:
 - audit documentation to correctly describe what's new,
   what's changed, etc
 - run test builds on as many platforms as possible
   (I've already done 32+64 bit linux, alpha/DU4, irix, VMS)
 - update the web site description

Beyond that, I am really hazy on exactly what is required.
Could you give us a brief outline?  It's easier to get volunteers
if they know what they are volunteering for.

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