Re: gnuplot 5.0.1?

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

On Sunday, 07 June 2015 Tatsuro MATSUOKA <tma...@ya...> wrote:
> The gnuplot web site announces that ver. 5.0.1 is released.
> 
> http://www.gnuplot.info/ReleaseNotes_5_0_1.html
> 
> 
> However, on the sourceforge site does not contain 5.0.1 contents.
> 
> Is this mere delay of sourceforge site?

Karl Ratzsch requested that we look at Bug #1594 before releasing 5.0.1   
There has been some discussion, so I have waited to learn if
there is agreement how it should be fixed.

Right now I am leaning towards restoring 4.6.6 behavior (second bracketed
range applies to column 2 of input data, which makes sense, and that
column is called z, which makes no sense to me but it's been like that
for 5 years). I will also print a warning line to the console
and to the log file stating exactly what is done, if anything, to
filter input based on the range of the independent variable.

The output in the log file would look like this:

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
FIT:    data read from 'lcdemo.dat'
        format = z
        Warning: using last bracketed range to filter input data lines
                 based on value of the independent variable in column 2
        independent variable range restricted to [1.02700 : 1.05000]
        #datapoints = 14
        residuals are weighted equally (unit weight)
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

If people are OK with that I will prepare a release tarball tomorrow
containing that one change from today's cvs.
If there is no agreement, I will prepare a release tarball that does
not contain a fix for Bug #1594 but will add it to the "KNOWN ISSUES"
section of the release notes.

	best regards,

		Ethan

> 
> Tatsuro