Re: Version 5.2.8 / Development status / Release plans

[Erik L. <eri...@gm...>]

Dear Ethan (and others),

I can report that compilation on OS X worked without problems.

Erik

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 1:16 PM Ethan Merritt (UW) <me...@uw...> wrote:

> (sending again because the first attempt somehow got wrapped in HTML)
>
> I have placed a testing package for version 5.2.8 on SourceForge
>
>    https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/files/gnuplot/testing/
>
> If no build problems are reported, I expect a full 5.2.8 release
> later this month.
>
> I am thinking that this should be the last release planned for
> version 5.2.  I figure to create a 5.4 branch and aim for an
> initial 5.4 release some time next year (2020).
>
> However I don't think the current state of git tip is appropriate
> for a stable release.  There are a lot of changes; some of the new
> features have barely been tested, others have been blocked
> out but only partially implemented.  Therefore I propose to base
> the 5.4 branch off 5.2 rather than off the development branch.
> My thought is to back-port some of the better-tested features
> from the development branch into 5.4.  Some obvious ones are
>         Unicode escape sequences
>     "set table separator <char>"
>     2D plot style "with arrows"
>     3D plot styles "with boxes", "with circles"
>
> If back-porting individual features turns out to be too difficult,
> the fallback plan is be to re-label current git tip as "5.4"
> and start a new development branch as we have done in the past.
> But I am hopeful that the change to using git will make
> back-porting easier.
>
> Your thoughts?
>
>         Ethan
>
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