Re: gnuplot 4.8?

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

----- Original Message -----

> From: sfeam 
> To: gnuplot-beta
> Cc: Allin Cottrell 
> Date: 2014/6/30, Mon 05:16
> Subject: Re: gnuplot 4.8?
> 
> On Sunday, June 29, 2014 03:44:23 PM Allin Cottrell wrote:
>>  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?
> 
> The 4.6 development source is a separate branch in CVS.
> The 4.7 (later 5.0) branch split off from it and gradually diverged.
> Most bugfixes have been applied to both branches, but they have 
> diverged enough that in some cases the "fix" for a problem in 4.6
> is limited to the existence of a better implementation in 5.0.
> 
> There will be at least one more patchlevel release 4.6.6.
> My crystal ball does not tell me at what rate fixable bugs will continue
> to be reported againt 4.6 as opposed to 5.0.  Other incremental
> releases could eventually appear, but I don't see a good rationale for
> starting a 4.8  series.   If a fix/change is compatible then it could go into
> 4.6; if not then it belongs in 5.0. 
> 
> A brief listing of changes accumulated since the last release is
> kept at the top of the NEWS files:
> 
> NEWS
> New features, changes and fixes in gnuplot version 4.6.6
> ========================================================
> 
> * NEW linetype keyword "nodraw" can be used to draw only the points in 
> "with lp"
> * NEW plot option to "skip N" lines at start of an ascii data file
> * NEW 'set fit prescale' normalized fit parameters before M-L refinement
> * NEW update svg terminal to grey out the key entry when a plot is toggled off
> * CHANGE Accept "with image pixels" as a synonym for "with image 
> failsafe"
> * CHANGE return NaN if a requested numerical data value fins a string instead
> * CHANGE Consume only one space following the font name in an enhanced test 
> string
> * FIX Faster recovery from outboard server gnuplot_qt being killed
> * FIX get rid of O(N^2) memory allocation for string data in long input lines
> * FIX large integers in iteration spec could cause overflow end condition check
> * FIX object fillcolors should be consistent with the color of current linetypes
> * FIX LFS support on 64bit platforms (not backported for 32bit platforms)
> * FIX timecolumn() applied to non-axis data reports an error rather than 
> faulting
> * FIX clipping could fail on integer overflow
> * FIX segfault resulting from strcol(N) applied to empty field in a *.csv file
> * FIX adjustment of key size to accommodate long key title
> * FIX treat data value read as "NaN" the same as we would 
> "1/0"
> * FIX handling of events triggered by closing the qt plot window
> * FIX iteration failure due to integer overflow
> * FIX clip r axis tics to current plot boundary
> * FIX logscale cb axis with volatile data
> 
>     Ethan


Do you really make package of gnuplot-4.6.6?
If it will be upload on the web, I can prepare windows and Cygwin binaries both for 32 and 64 bit.

Tatsuro