Re: Winding down patches...

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Wednesday 13 June 2007 02:27, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> > Due to an probable change of venue in the coming weeks, I will likely not have 
> > time for gnuplot code as I occassionally have had in the past.  If there are any 
> > code bugs or features, or any sourceforge patches that people want me to look 
> > at, now is time.
> 
> My comments:
> 
> - history patch
>   fine, I propose to move it to cvs

OK. I hope you guys have tested it thoroughly.
 
> - [1488168] z_floor and z_ceiling based on xyplane.absolute
>   fine, I propose to move it to cvs

OK.
 
> - [ 1731160 ] min/max printout error for show Xrange
>   fine, I propose to move it to cvs

No.  I don't think the issue is well understood.
There may be an error, but I am not so sure.
Isn't this what the "writeback" option is supposed to handle?
Do we have a test case for "writeback"?
 
> - [1004754] Tics and grid slightly outside border.
>   is this still needed?

No. Please drop this one.  There are always going to be
corner cases where if you ask for something odd you will
get an unexpected result.  In this case the requested
axis range is not reasonable, and the fix belongs in the
program that generated the unreasonable axis range.

> - hidden patches

My impression is that this is another case like the one
above. There are corner cases that cause minor glitches.
This is annoying, yes.  But the proposed wholesale
re-working of the hidden3d code is almost certain to have
an equal number of glitches and corner cases.  You just
haven't found them yet.  I am inclined to say we should
drop this whole issue.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt