Re: [Gnuplot-info] Gnuplot 4.6 -> 5.0 diffs

[Ethan A M. <eam...@gm...>]

On Sunday, 08 March 2015 03:16:39 AM Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Mac OS/X, Yosemite 10.10.2.
> 
> Is there a guide to what changed in Gnuplot 5?  I was wondering why my 
> default colours changed e.g. "lt 1" used to be red, and is now a sort of 
> purple.
> 
> I discovered this after restarting the Mac; I had changed the order of 
> plots on one graph, restarted the Mac following a network problem, plotted 
> an unrelated graph, and noticed it.  In the meantime I must've done quite 
> a few updates to Macports, whilst keeping a Gnuplot window open all the 
> while (silly me).
> 
> I didn't know I was running Gnuplot 5.0.0 until just now, when I went to 
> confirm the version (I think it used to be 4.6.5 or something).
> 
> Comparing the result of "test" with an old one that I'd printed (and 
> laminated), there's a few small differences such as points now being black 
> instead of the line colour and pattern fill "9" has disappeared, but the 
> colours have changed somewhat, for no apparent good reason.
> 
> As a result I know have to change *all* of my scripts, except in those 
> cases where I was using RGB colours.
> 
> So, what little surprises may I expect in 5.0?


Version 5 is different in a lot of ways.
Hence the bump in major version from 4.* to 5.0

Read the Release Notes, the "What's New" section in the User Manual, etc.

All this and more available to browse on
   http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net