Re: What's left for a 4.2 release?

[<br...@ph...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:
> This attempts to be a complete list of unresolved issues that I see
> as release-critical.   It's a very short list.
> 
> Bugs
> ========
> 
> #1512210  buffer overflow using pgnuplot
> 		
> 	Sounds serious, but no one has confirmed the bug.
> 	We never heard back from the original reporter.

Let's put this on the back-burner.  Whatever it is, I'm reasonably sure 
it's been exactly like that since pgnuplot was first written.  There's 
no hurry fixing it now.

> #1510816  Postscript prologues files
> 
> 	Works fine under linux/DU4/irix/etc, and OK though not
> 	perfectly on VMS.  The sticking point is Windows.
> 	Is this workable under Windows, or do we have to provide a
> 	compile-time option to include all of the PostScript
> 	boilerplate in the driver itself?  I'd hate to take what
> 	I consider to be a step backwards, but if we must - we must.

I'll try to have a look at this, but: my time is severely limited.  New 
job, new town, you get the drift.

> #1505261  wgnuplot: open file-open-dialog in current dir
> 
> 	I don't care whether this goes in, or gets vetoed,
> 	but we need a decision one way or the other.

I vote for keeping it as-is.  The potential benefit is too small to 
warrant the risk of a last-minute fix.

IMHO, if there's any Windows-specific issue that *really* needs to be 
addressed, it's the #1 FAQ issue about wgnuplot: font in the text window 
is unreadably small for first-time users.  Has to be fixed once and the 
fix solidified by writing a wgnuplot.ini.  Unfortunately, this broke by 
outside interference, i.e. we changed nothing, but Redmond did, and 
poof, the original code that worked since wgnuplot 3.5 on Windows 3.1, 
suddenly fails.  Windows seems to have forgotten what "just give me the 
default font" means.

> 	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.

Oh well, since I don't have the time to put my money where my mouth is 
--- go ahead and check it in as-is.