Re: 4.4.1 release

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

Hello

Configurations!!

I will prepare the windows, DJGPP and cygwin binaries as soon as possible and upload on my website.

Note:
1. I have update the document README.Windows concerning install to the windows vista and 7. This is
now attached in my binary distribution of gnuplot 4.5 as the README.Windows.gpteam .
Please check and modify and feedback to me.

2. As I have reported the here, the help file generated by my system has problems.  
http://old.nabble.com/help-file-on-windows-td29457099.html#a29457099

I will update gnuplot.rtf for windows help work shop. Will somebody generate wgnuplot.hlp from it?

Anyway I will do happy works for distributions.

Regards

Tatsuro  

--- "sfeam (Ethan Merritt)"  wrote:

>    	           GNUPLOT VERSION 4.4.1
> 	    ===================================
> 
> Version 4.4.1 is an incremental update to the current official base
> release gnuplot version 4.4.
> 
> A synopsis of changes since the previous release is given below and in the
> NEWS file.  Further information is given in ChangeLog.
> 
> New features, changes and fixes in gnuplot version 4.4.1
> ===========================================================
> 
> * NEW Support the "%s" format specifier in strftime()
> * NEW Optional 6th data column in candlesticks style to specific box width
> * NEW If integer arithmetic i*j or i**j would overflow, return value as a real
> * NEW "set style circle radius <default-radius>"
> * FIX autoconfiguration of readline support in OSX
> * FIX font problems in win terminal 
> * FIX Protect against runaway recursion by limiting depth of nested functions
> * FIX metapost terminal: Fix inheritance of line thickness by text strings
> * FIX cairo terminals could segfault on certain enhanced text strings
> * FIX pdfcairo output to stdout now works
> * FIX font ",size" in non-enhanced mode postscript terminals
> * FIX Do a better job of estimating the width of UTF-8 encoded strings
> * FIX baseline bug in canvas terminal rotation of enhanced text
> * FIX Allow "with labels" to work for binary input data
> * FIX update user GPVAL variables after plot in table mode
> * CHANGE depth-sorting of pm3d surfaces now applies jointly to all in the plot
> * CHANGE 3D impulses are now always drawn from z=0
> * CHANGE Enable HIDDEN_QUADTREE by default
> * CHANGE Enable "set fit errorvariables" by default
> * CHANGE Regardless of current timefmt, read time from binary files as a binary
> * CHANGE do not limit 3D rotation to 0<rotx<180
> 
> 		 NOTE TO PACKAGERS AND TESTERS 
> 		===============================
> 
> We strongly encourage you to build, test, and package the new cairo-based
> terminals. These are pngcairo and pdfcairo for output to file, and wxt as
> the default interactive terminal.
> 
> This introduces dependencies on
> 	libwxgtk2
> 	libpangocairo
> 	libpango
> 	libcairo
> 
> Of course the terminals (output modes) used by previous gnuplot versions
> are also still available, including png output based on libgd and
> interactive output using X11.
> 
> Demo plots illustrating these and other features are online at
> 
> 	http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo/
> 
> You can download a source tarball for gnuplot version 4.4.1 from the 
> gnuplot development site on SourceForge.
> 
> 	http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2055
> 
> 
> 		          OTHER NOTES
> 		===============================
> 
> Installation
> ------------
> Installation instructions are available in the source itself; the short
> version for linux/unix-like systems is to unpack the tarball and then
> build it:
> 		cd gnuplot-4.4.1 ; ./configure ; make
> test it:
> 		make check
> install it:
> 		make install
> 
> Pay careful attention to the output of the ./configure script.
> It may indicate that some output drivers have been omitted because the
> necessary support libraries were not found.  In general you need to have
> previously installed the "*-devel-*" versions of these libraries. 
> 
> 
> Known issues
> ------------
> 
> - OSX:  The wxt terminal does not work. Alpha-channel support in aquaterm
> requires aquaterm version 1.0.1, available from http://aquaterm.sourceforge.net
> Aquaterm itself may not work on 64-bit systems.
> 
> - External support library libgd version 2.0.36 introduces a new method
> of font selection using the fontconfig utitily.  However, it does not work
> properly without a patch to the upstream libgd source that has not yet made
> it into packaged versions.   Here it is:
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> --- gd-2.0.36/gdft.c    2008-03-09 16:05:52.000000000 -0700
> +++ gd-2.0.36-mod/gdft.c        2009-05-20 20:22:13.000000000 -0700
> @@ -1661,7 +1661,7 @@ static char * font_path(char **fontpath,
>  BGD_DECLARE(int) gdFTUseFontConfig(int flag)
>  {
>  #ifdef HAVE_LIBFONTCONFIG
> -       fontConfigFlag = 1;
> +       fontConfigFlag = flag;
>         return 1;
>  #else
>         return 0;
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> 
> - The MS Windows terminal device sometimes draws with a dashed line
> when it should draw with a solid line. (Tracker item 1952364).
> Also it doesn't yet fully support alpha-channel output.
> 
> 
> Support
> -------
> Please report all bugs and installation problems to the bug tracker
> on SourceForge:
> 
> 	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=2055&atid=102055
> 
> There is also an active gnuplot discussion forum on usenet group
> 
> 	comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot
> 
> Development
> -----------
> Gnuplot development is quite active. The development branch on SourceForge
> contains preliminary implementations of many new features.  The development
> branch is currently identified as version 4.5.
> Feedback and contributions of code are very welcome.
> 
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