Re: Let's get 4.2 out as it is. Re: [ gnuplot-Bugs-1655001 ] set grid front overwrites zeroaxes

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> On Saturday 24 February 2007 02:04, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> 
>>Bugs item #1655001, was opened at 2007-02-08 10:18
>>You can respond by visiting: 
>>https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=102055&aid=1655001&group_id=2055
>>
>>Ethan, now this works differently in gnuplot 4.2rc4 and 4.3cvs:
>>
>>Is it intended? Could you please apply your patch for 4.3 also for 4.2?
> 
> 
> I do not want to make any more code changes for 4.2.
> Last minute configuration fixes or documentation tweaks only.
> Let's get it out the door!

Agreed.

> This patch ("splot_map_border") is one of a dozen or so that I
> have been collecting against 4.2.
> Each is self-contained and already in cvs, but was developed
> after the 4.2 code freeze. I give a complete list below.
> 
> My thought was to bundle these with fixes for any serious bugs
> reported for the distributed 4.2 code, and make them available
> several months after 4.2 goes out as "patch level 1".

If you want, but will patch levels get the consideration that a new release does to justify the effort?  (I'm not sure how software bundles are maintained.)  Otherwise, use your judgement of what to move into the release.  If you want help verifying behavior of any of these, just make a  short comment of what command or demo to look at for each:

>  1) rgbvar2D              Allow 3rd col of color info in 2D plots
>  2) image_clip            Implements image clipping in post pdf wxt gd
>  3) pdf_fonts             error trap and recovery for missing font info
>  4) offset_ambiguity      reduce the problem of trailing comma after 2D offset
>  5) 3dimpulses            splot with impulses lt rgb variable
>  6) zero_width_sample     if sample box is 0 width, don't draw boundary either
>  7) svg_pathlength        avoid ridiculously long lines in svg output
>  8) clipping_failure      fixes bug #1649887 that triggered a segfault when
>                           line segment endpoint went negative in bitmap.c
>  9) splot_map_border      Force border in 'set view map' to be either front or back
> 10) gd_grid               Draw dotted grid as alternating current_color/transparent
> 11) label_def_pt          Provide a default point type for labels
> 12) int_error_reset       Call back into datafile.c from int_error() to reset context
> 13) strcol                Allow strcol() as shorthand for stringcolumn()

Dan