Re: What's left for a 4.2 release?

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

On Friday 09 June 2006 05:23 pm, Timoth=E9e Lecomte wrote:
>     - work on the patches/feature requests that are worth it for 4.2,
> are then declare the feature freeze, and sort/solve reported bugs

We had better freeze it quickly, before Bastian Maerkisch thinks
of 25 more nice features to add :-)

Seriously, I am tempted to include the configuration option
   ./configure --with-readline=3Dbsd
because it addresses a recurring issue about readline support.
Apparently there are multiple versions of libeditline that are
compatible with this option (in the sense that ./configure will
find them and gnuplot will build).  These various versions may
differ in how well they work, but that is out of our control.
We can always add a FAQ or status page describing them later,
since it doesn't really affect the configuration option itself.

But it's a slippery slope.=20
I was about ready to close the door on any further addition of
features prior to a freeze. The only features left on my list were:
    #1117724     [fit] access to resulting chisquare
    #1488448     User-available GPVAL_ variables

The --with-readline=3Dbsd configuration option from Bastian is
    #1504831  	 support for NetBSDs editline

Petr has suggested also including
    #1027032      Connect gnuplot_x11 to exterior application
But I don't think this is polished yet (mousing is very problematic)
and I'd rather leave it out than include a broken version that=20
can't be fixed later without breaking backwards compatibility.

And I'm about to add one that is more a matter of internal
documentation that a bugfix or feature:

    #########	Could someone please go through the various
		new configuration options, and add their status
		(+/-) to the output of "show version long"?

=2D-=20
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA