Gentlemen, start your engines...

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

Hello, everybody,

this 4.2 release process is taking a little longer than expected.  So, 
based on a suggestion from Ethan, I've decided to start what the German 
proverb calls "making nails with heads".  CVS is branched (branch tag 
branch-4-2-stable), VERSION is 4.2 and PATCHLEVEL is rc1 (for now on 
both the head and the 4.2 branch).

Everybody should check out a working copy of the branch, and test that 
it works as expected, on as many platforms as you can.

I'll also put up a release candidate source tarball on SF.net (in the 
"gnuplot-current" subproject of the file release system).

I think this candidate should be considered "beta", i.e. no publication 
of binary packages just yet, please.