Re: Weirdness with boxplot

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Wednesday, 28 January, 2015 10:32:49 Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28 January, 2015 09:48:07 Philipp K. Janert wrote:
> > 
> > The "level" of the FIRST record has been changed.
> > Now there are three levels, but I get the same 
> > plot as for File1, except that the name of the
> > first level is now 10.
> 
> I do not know exactly why that happens in gnuplot 5.0.0
> but in any case it is no longer happening since the 
> boxplot "layer" code was reworked as suggested by Achim Gratz.
> See discussion attached to Bug #1532.

Sorry, I misread the ChangeLog file.
The revised boxplot algorithm came from Jouke Witteveen.

> Therefore this issue is no longer present in the CVS version
> for either 5.0 or 5.1.   It is unfortunate that it wasn't
> caught earlier, but apparently 2 weeks of post-release testing
> brings in more testers and more reports of problems than
> 6 months of pre-release testing.
>
>  Ethan