Re: Last call for issues affecting release of gnuplot 5.0

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 12/30/2014 03:55 AM, Bastian Märkisch wrote:
> Version 5.0 will be the first to have the qt terminal on Windows. While
> it works very well and is very fast, it still has some issues - or
> behaves notably different from the windows and wxt terminals:
>
>     * 'raise' and 'lower' commands have no effect.
>     * Raising the console window by pressing "space" does not work
>       (Bug #1432).
>     * 'pause mouse' does not work (fix in 5.1, see Bug 1502).
>     * 'pause mouse' hangs gnuplot if no plot window is open (Bug #1434).
>     * In contrast to wxt or windows, the qt terminal is missing an
>       option to raise the window when a plot is finished.
>     * Since qt is an outboard driver, 'persist' works like on other
>       platforms, whereas for the wxt and windows terminal 'persist'
>       is only emulated by keeping the input loop running. (Note that
>       "fork" is not available.)

I've seen some bugs appearing in WXT in the development code, by my 
estimate after 5.0.  The types of bugs I'm seeing are 
persistent-terminal-when-shouldn't-be, crashing on exit.  I can 
investigate a few of those if you want to do a code sprint and clear out 
some bugs.  I'm a bit reluctant to attempt a fix on the persistent 
issues for WXT, though, because of its non outboard nature.  Might be 
hard to fix without some other issue appearing, but I could be wrong.

Dan


> As it is, "qt" will now be the default terminal on Windows. We should
> discuss if this should really stay that way. At least this change and
> the known issues should be mentioned in the release notes. Please also
> note that most Windows users will use the binaries provided.
>
>     Bastian
>
>
> Am 29.12.2014 um 19:27 schrieb sfeam:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I plan to package up gnuplot 5.0 and place the tarball on SourceForge
>> for release on New Year's Day.  If you know of any remaining issues
>> that should be either fixed or mentioned in the Release Notes, please
>> post them here on the mailing list.
>>
>> The current text of the Release Notes is here:
>>
>>     http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/ReleaseNotes_5_0.html
>>
>> 		Ethan