Re: Plan for incremental release of version 4.2.3

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

Dear Ethan Merritt

It's a good news.

Thank you for your every efforts for the gnuplot.!!!!! 

>From the below, the mouse zooming of volatile data will not be inculded in 4.2.3
because it is an experimental trail on the cvs version.  Right?

I would like to confirm it as an octave mingw and cygwin maintainer.

Regards

Tatsuro

--- Ethan Merritt <merritt@u.washington.edu> wrote:

> It's been 1 year since the 4.2 release and 6 months since the 4.2.2 
> incremental release (4.2 patchlevel 2).
> 
> I am thinking to release 4.2.3 (4.2 patchlevel 3) some time in the
> next couple of weeks.  The list of accumulated changes as shown
> in the NEWS file is appended below. Apart from some trivial new
> features, this mostly consists of fixes for platform-specific
> configuration issues and terminal driver bugs.  
> 
> In particular, this release should now self-install on OSX 10.4
> (OSX 10.5 is still a sore point) and various platforms not using
> the ./configure script.  It also contains the recent fix for pm3d
> and polygon-fill support in the cgm terminal driver, broken since
> 4.0.
> 
> If there is anything else you think should be included, please
> speak up.  There are for example four recent patches to the cvs
> development version that also apply against 4.2 and could go in
> if wanted:
> 
>    cgm_rgb              Approximate RGB colors for cgm terminal
> 			by using the web_color_rgbs from bitmap.c
>    inline_readline      Read inline data from '-' via readline()
>    2xbinary             allow more than 2 binary files in a single
> 			plot command
>    xtic_rotate_42       better estimation of space for rotated tic labels
> 
> 
> 	Ethan
> 
> 
> New features, changes and fixes in gnuplot version 4.2.3
> ===========================================================
> * NEW options front and back to "set colorbox"
> * NEW character encoding support for emf and pdf terminals
> * NEW "format" keyword for "set tics" and "set {x|y|...}tics"
> * NEW allow user to set colorbar label rotatation if the bar is vertical
> * FIX allow tic format to be given as a string variable
> * FIX handling of negative screen coordinates on ia64, PPC
> * FIX direction of y axis in graph coords for "set view map"
> * FIX minitics in log scale
> * FIX minor bugfixes to terminals fig, emf, post, svg, x11
> * FIX cgm terminal now produces correct pm3d and pattern fill output
> * FIX protect against overly long font names in gd, svg
> * FIX infinite loop from x11 plot window resizing under ion, fluxbox
> * FIX never estimate zero size for a non-empty string
> * FIX discard degenerate polygons during hidden3d processing
> * FIX segfault if replot is called while terminal type is unknown
> * FIX segfault if locale obtained by getenv() is freed
> * FIX discard axis ticks read from previous data file
> * FIX Do not clip image against Z range in 3D splot with "set view map"
> * FIX off-by-one error in implicit column 0 for binary data files
> * FIX splot was trashing the default clipping boundaries for 2D plots
> * CHANGE tweak installation scripts for OSX nt cyg dj2 mgw
> * CHANGE install Xresource file as Gnuplot, not Gnuplot.app-defaults
> * CHANGE Remove limitation of 10 args max to internal function sprintf()
> * CHANGE Bring emf point types into conformity with other terminals
> 
> -- 
> Ethan A Merritt
> 
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