Gnuplot release (was Re: GP_ISVAR, GP_FIT_ERRVARS)

[Dmitri A. S. <dm...@un...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:

> Is it possible to proceed in the following stages?
> 	1) release 3.8k

	Call it 4.0 _now_, please?

> 	2) branch off a clean tree for a code-frozen 4.0
> 	3) rename the main CVS development tree 4.1a
> 	4) allow development work to continue in the 4.1a tree
> 	5) bug-fixs (only) get applied also to the frozen 4.0 copy


The rational for this is that having 4.0 "stable" release put
pressure on distributions to include it.
And by distributions I do not mean only Linux (yes, I know,
Debian and Conectiva had gnuplot-3.8 included), but also
things like sunfreeware.com etc...

That will expose gnuplot to significantly large pool
of different environments and will facilitate bug
discovery.

Consider it as a plea.

Sincerely,

Dmitri.