Re: Gnuplot version 5 release candidate

[Pieter-Tjerk de B. <p.t...@ut...>]

Hello,

I've given the 5.0-rc1 release candidate a try, and a few minor things
caught my attention:

* The .tgz source tarball doesn't seem to contain the release notes.

* The section in the release notes on potentially backward-incompatible
  changes does not mention the change of the default colorsequence on
  many terminals.
  This change doesn't stop old scripts from working, but the output
  produced is different, which can be an issue in case of non-interactive
  use (e.g., automatic plots on a website, with surrounding text referring
  to colours in the plot).

* The fit command in some cases interprets one column as errors, for
  compatibility with pre-5.0 versions, according to `help fit`.
  Perhaps it's an idea to change this, making 'noerror' the default,
  since 5.0 isn't supposed to be fully compatible anyway?
  That seems more systematic: then the error column is only there when
  explicitly indicated, and it makes the 'using' specification in case
  of 2 independent variables similar to what the user expects from splot.

Regards,
  Pieter-Tjerk