Re: What's left for a 4.2 release?

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> Bugs
> ========
>
> #1512210  buffer overflow using pgnuplot
>
> 	Sounds serious, but no one has confirmed the bug.
> 	We never heard back from the original reporter.

Thus it should be closed.

> #1117724  [fit] access to resulting chisquare
>
> 	I proposed exporting user-visible variables named
>
> 	FIT_CONVERGED - 1 if the fit has converged, 0 otherwise
> 	FIT_NDF  - number of degrees of freedom (#obs - #param)
> 	FIT_RMS  - RMS fit of model to data;
> 	           a.k.a. "std fit"
>                   a.k.a. sqrt(sum_of_squares/ndf)
> 	FIT_CHI2 - variance (reduced chi-squared residual) after fit;
> 	           a.k.a. (sum_of_squares/ndf)
>
> 	Hans-Bernhard has objected to these names, but no one has
> 	suggested anything better. Please speak up.

I prefer the proposed names FIT_*

> #1513118  Standardize all config and Makefiles for 4.2
>
> 	We have set the ./configure script to select most of the
> 	new features by default.  But the makefiles for platforms
> 	not using the configure script do not match this (see below).
> 	Should they?

Yes, at least those maintained.

I've confirmed it for config.{os2, mgw, cyg, nt}

> /* Define to enable quadtree optimization in hidden3d code. */
> #define HIDDEN3D_QUADTREE 1

But this is not default in ./configure.
I never tried this option. It's nowhere written whether it is useful. If it 
is, then let us have it on.

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