Re: towards 4.4

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

On Tuesday 02 February 2010, Allin Cottrell wrote:

> 
> One observation on gnuplot 4.4: this list has been much taken up
> with somewhat arcane problems on Windows. 

That's 'cos Windows is in the worst shape.

> My 2 cents is that it
> would be good to have 4.4 out as soon as possible just so long as
> there are no substantial regressions relative to 4.2 (given how
> much good stuff 4.4 contains).  I fear that waiting for perfection
> on "pause mouse" and company could be a recipe for indefinite
> postponement.

To be fair, people have been sending reports and patches to fix
build problems on other platforms as well.  But I've been kind of
busy, and haven't yet caught up with all of them.   

The target release date all along has been March (6 months after
4.2.6).  I think we can hit that target, though I am not sure
we will have a fully automated recipe for building from source
under OSX.

	Ethan