Re: Gentlemen, start your engines...

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

> 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.

Good, just the following three things should go to 4.2 as well (IMHO):

- the Rework of configure summary patch
- the Wildcard patch

and yet another bug report I've found this weekend and passed to Ethan.

What about the Gamma problem? Is Mac hurt by it or not?


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

Please wait for those fixes, and:

Some other small tasks to do:
- Some (c)/Copyright should be extended to 2006.

- Please "everybody" read the TODO file and remove all what's already in.
   -- There is a long Windows section.
   -- There is a long Lars' list.

- Could the maintainer (Clark?) organize synchronization of
 	http://www.gnuplot.info/development/binaries/
   with
 	http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/development/binaries/

- In README.1ST, I think that sections
     Note 1 - UNISYS patent (why no more GIF images)
     Note 2 - Open source programs for PNG to GIF conversion
   can be completely removed.


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