Re: gnuplot 4.8?

[sfeam <sf...@us...>]

On Monday, June 30, 2014 06:10:24 PM Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> ----- 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.

I have shown the NEWS file from the 4.6 CVS repository.
Each PATCHLEVEL release is basically a snapshot of the repository.
4.6.5 was a snapshot from February 2014.
Some time later this year we will take another snapshot and this will
be release 4.6.6.   It will contain the changes listed above and any
other changes made between now and the tie of release.

	Ethan


> Tatsuro