Re: gnuplot 4.8?

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

----- Original Message -----
> From: sfeam 
> To: Tatsuro MATSUOKA 
> Cc: gnuplot-beta Allin Cottrell
> Date: 2014/6/30, Mon 23:25
> Subject: Re: gnuplot 4.8?
> 
> 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


OK.Thanks!

Tatsuro