gnuplot 4.8?

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

I understand that 5.0 is supposed to be the release where the 
gnuplot developers are free to make some backward-incompatible 
changes. I've no problem with that, but I wonder if there's any 
thought to produce a gnuplot 4.8?

I get the impression -- admittedly, without studying the code base 
in detail -- that CVS gnuplot has accumulated a number of helpful 
fixes along with some nice new options. My notion of a possible 4.8 
is basically 5.0 with the backward-incompatible elements reverted. I 
guess it would be trivial to revert some things (the default color 
scheme, the default for text in respect of enhanced versus 
non-enhanced) but maybe less trivial to revert others.

Anyway, just wondering. The "use case" is that some of us who employ 
gnuplot as ancillary to data-analysis software would find it very 
nice to have a version that's both backward-compatible -- the 
important thing here is that scripts designed for 4.4 and 4.6 will 
still work -- and up-to-date with all bug-fixes, and buildable for 
win64 out of the box.

-- 
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University