Re: Announcing release of version 4.4.3

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

Congratulations!

Because my Internet access at home is slow and binaries already made was kept
in the PC in the University I will upload them on my site on Monday.

Hello Ethan
I will mail you when I will upload the binary on my web.
Please check and upload them to the SourceForge site.

Regards

Tatsuro

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

> The source tarball and user manual (gnuplot.pdf) for version 4.4.3 are
> now available on SourceForge.  Windows binaries will appear over the 
> next few days.
> 
> 
>    	           GNUPLOT VERSION 4.4.3
> 	    ===================================
> 
> Version 4.4.3 is an incremental update to the current official release.
> 
> A synopsis of changes since the version 4.4.2 is given below and in the
> NEWS file.  Further information is given in ChangeLog.
> 
> New features, changes and fixes in gnuplot version 4.4.3
> ===========================================================
> 
> * NEW Implement pan and zoom via mouse wheel.
> * NEW set key maxcolumns N maxrows M
> * NEW value("varname") returns the value of the named variable
> * NEW encoding cp1251 - 8-bit Cyrillic
> * CHANGE backport newer emf terminal driver from version 4.5
> * FIX better estimation of latex string lengths
> * FIX colorbar representation of discrete color palettes is pixel accurate
> * FIX NaN initialization and tests working on more (all?) platforms
> * FIX configuration script tests for readline+ncurses
> * FIX prevent out-of-range boxes from creating degenerate ghosts on the border
> * FIX missing alpha channel flag for pdfcairo terminal
> * FIX font initialization in windows terminal
> 
> 		 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 4.4.3 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-4.4.3 ; ./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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