Re: Planned release of gnuplot version 5.0 Patchlevel 4

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

> From: Ethan A Merritt 

> To: gnuplot-beta
> Cc: 
> Date: 2016/7/13, Wed 08:02
> Subject: Planned release of gnuplot version 5.0 Patchlevel 4
> 
> I plan to prepare a 5.0.4 release package later this week.
> Is anyone aware of unresolved problems or bugs that should
> be fixed before release?
> 
> Short list of fixes/changes that will appear in 5.0.4
> ===============================================================================
> * CHANGE minimum linewidth of all cairo terminals is now 0.2 pt
> * CHANGE in-line datablock lines are not limited to 1024 characters
> * CHANGE do not truncate or renumber history items in the active session
> * CHANGE (Windows only) open piped output using mode "wb" rather than 
> "w"
> * CHANGE backport 5.1 use of "lc variable" to color boxplot factors
> * CHANGE gnuplot_svg.js now remaps coords for svg image embedded in larger 
> object
> * CHANGE disallow "set palette maxcolors 1" (which has never worked)
> * CHANGE data-input errors in "stats" now generate a warning rather 
> than an error
> * FIX placement of objects and labels using linked secondary axis coordinates
> * FIX 'set term qt <N> close' acts immediately rather than after 
> next mouse event
> * FIX emf terminal could lose track of bold/italic/etc font properties
> * FIX emf terminal text placement of UTF-8 strings
> * FIX regression that caused "set log x; plot '-'; replot" to 
> mess up autoscaling
> * FIX regression in v5 that mangled 3D arrows defined by "from ... rto 
> ..."
> * FIX transposition of row/column count in plotting ascii x/y/z data "with 
> image"
> * FIX 7-column input to "splot ... with vectors"
> * FIX ignore incomplete "every" spec for image plots
> * FIX placement of xyplane does not depend on having tics or grid lines enabled
> * FIX early program exit on replot+resize with inline data
> * FIX bad plot iteration with negative increment, e.g. plot for [i=9:1:-1] 
> foo(i)
> * FIX smoothed curves could not be plotted as filledcurves; now they can be
> ===============================================================================
> 
> No new features.
> 
>     Ethan

I have tried to build gnuplot 5.0.4 on MinGW64 64 bit on windows.

Build itself is fine.

I have noticed that I could not specify install directory by installer install.
This is also true on cvs version that I have not been noticed.

Bastian

Have you ever seen such fault?

Tatsuro

Tatsuro