Re: Release 5.2.4

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

OK.

I understand. 


However, windows binary packages now include gnuplot.pdf with incorrect version number 
because packaging system for windows uses pdf files generated from source.
I can correct them manually.

Please allow me to make corrected windows binary packages and upload on the web.

Tatsuro



----- Original Message -----
> From: sfeam <sf...@us...>
> To: gnu...@li...; Tatsuro MATSUOKA <tma...@ya...>
> Cc: 
> Date: 2018/6/6, Wed 11:26
> Subject: Re: Release 5.2.4
> 
> On Wednesday, 06 June 2018 10:06:39 Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
>>  Shigeharu Takeno found that
>> 
>> 
>>  In docs/titlepag.tex in gnuplot-5.2.4.tar.gz
>> 
>> 
>>  There described
>> 
>>  %  31 May 2017 Version 5.2
>>     Version 5.2.3 (May 2018)
>> 
>>  gnuplot.pdf on SourceForge, the version number is 5.2.4 but source for 
> document tar ball
>>  is still 5.2.3.
> 
> Yes. That is true.
> But the content of the manual (docs/gnuplot.doc) has not changed
> except for one sentence about the new ARGV array variable.
> 
>>  I propose to make a fixed tar ball named like gnuplot-5.2.4-1.tar.gz.
> 
> In the past, people have complained about relabeling the source tarball
> or changing its content.  If a change is necessary, the policy is that
> we increment the patchlevel to create a new minor release version.
> But it seems unreasonable to create a release 5.2.5 only so that we
> can change the version stamp on the title page of the pdf documentation.
> 
> By the way, the gnuplot.pdf on the download site itself correctly 
> lists version 5.2.4 on the title page.   I will make sure the copy
> linked on the main web page is correct also.
> 
>     Ethan
> 
> 
>> 
>>  Tatsuro
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>  > From: sfeam via gnuplot-beta 
> <gnu...@li...>
>>  > To: gnu...@li...
>>  > Cc: 
>>  > Date: 2018/6/5, Tue 13:18
>>  > Subject: Release 5.2.4
>>  > 
>>  > Release 5.2.4 source tarball is ready and can be downloaded from
>>  > 
>>  >    
>>  > 
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/files/gnuplot/5.2.4/gnuplot-5.2.4.tar.gz
>>  > 
>>  > This release contains
>>  > - a fix for a serious regression reported against 5.2.3 (spurious
>>  >   evaluation of logscale coordinates as UNDEFINED)
>>  > - re-implementation of the "refresh" command to correct 
> regressions in
>>  >   5.2.0 through 5.2.3
>>  > - sanity checks for several invalid command sequences found by fuzzing
>>  > - several minor bug-fixes
>>  > - two recent minor changes back-ported from the development version
>>  > 
>>  > Yes it's only been a month since 5.2.3 but I think the regression
>>  > in plotting logscale axes is serious enough to warrant an immediate 
> fix.
>>  > If you want to test before/after here is a simple trigger for the 
> error:
>>  >     set log y
>>  >     plot [1:100] x**2, 1/0
>>  > 
>>  > Windows binaries will follow eventually.
>>  > 
>>  >     happy gnuplotting
>>  > 
>>  >         Ethan
>>  > 
>>  > 
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