Re: Plan to release 4.6.4 next week

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 09/30/2013 10:13 PM, sfeam wrote:
> On Monday, 30 September 2013 09:43:46 PM Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>> Sounds good.  I'm just wondering what the status and availability of Qt
>> terminal is.  Is it now compiled and included in gnuplot by default if
>> the necessary Qt development tools are on the system?
>
> It is still a configuration option.
>
> Version 4.6    ./configure --enable-qt
> Version 4.7    ./configure --with-qt      or ./configure --with-qt=qt4
>
> The latter option is there because it will use qt5 if the libraries are present,
> but there is an annoying bug if you link against qt5 so there's an option
> to force qt4 instead.  I'm pretty sure the qt5 bug is something in a qt
> support library rather than in gnuplot code, so I'm hoping that it will be
> fixed in some incremental qt5 release.
>
>> Are most of the popular bundles building gnuplot with Qt terminal?
>
> I don't know.
> It's what I've been using by default for some while now myself.

Same here.  I still use X11 terminal and of course the variety of 
file-base terminals.  Qt does have some small strange effect with 
anti-aliasing on thin plot lines, but that's not gnuplot's fault.

How do others feel about making qt4 terminal compiled by default (if 
developer resources available) with an option for Qt5 --with-qt=qt5?  It 
seems to me that Qt4 is sort of the common version, at least as far as I 
know.

Dan


>
> 	Ethan
>
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>> On 09/29/2013 11:07 PM, sfeam wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I plan to put a tarball for gnuplot-4.6.4 on SourceForge next weekend.
>>> Any last minute bug reports or other issues?
>>> Here's the NEWS section for changes since 4.6.3:
>>>
>>>
>>>    New features, changes and fixes since gnuplot version 4.6.3
>>> ===========================================================
>>>
>>> * NEW Ctrl-Break interrupts fitting run in wgnuplot
>>> * CHANGE treat empty fields in a csv file as "missing" rather than "bad"
>>> * CHANGE allow reference to more than one column header in 'using' or 'title'
>>> * CHANGE install-info is no longer a default "make install" target
>>> * FIX svg and canvas terminal mousing of inverted axis coordinates
>>> * FIX emf failed to initialize font correctly on some systems
>>> * FIX timedata columns can now be referred to via column(N) and column("HEAD")
>>> * FIX qt terminal toggling of enhanced text elements in plot with labels
>>> * FIX color/pattern generated for key entries of columnstacked histograms
>>> * FIX hitting ^C twice forces temination of wxt session hung by lost X-server
>>> * FIX win terminal failed to properly adjust plot border after window resize
>>> * FIX several conditions in which macros were not expanded during command input
>>> * FIX promote a string containing only digits to INTGR rather than CMPLX
>>> * FIX 'set grid front' caused failure to initialize location of axis zero point
>>> * FIX very poor precision in mouse coords reported by x11 in -persist mode
>>> * FIX parsing of $# (the number of arguments in a "call"). It's not a comment!
>>> * FIX memory leak of cropped images using pngcairo terminal
>>> * FIX "lc variable" now iterates over linetype colors (not styles) as documented
>>> * FIX rtics were sometimes drawn with length 0
>>>
>>> 		Ethan Merritt (gnuplot development team)
>>>
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