Re: TODO

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> On Thursday 08 April 2004 09:46 am, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> > Please have a look to that file...
> 
> BUGS - maybe just refer people to the bug-tracker on 
> SourceForge.

Not unless we file all the bugs currently in there into the Tracker first.  
For the moment, I guess we should err toward the lazy option and just keep
it as it is.  It's short, and the Bug Tracker is mentioned prominently.

> I think all those docs/old/README.* files can be deleted.

No.  At least some of these files are a significant part of the legacy of
gnuplot.  Pretending all that history never happened would be the wrong
thing to do at this time, IMHO.

In what little time is left, I suggest we concentrate our efforts on those
things that really *need* improvement.  Removing stale stuff should be
postponed to the general house-cleaning session we'll have to do right
after the release anyway.

> The mention of an INF bug for binary files- I'm not sure.
> I can't find any record of such a bug on the SourceForge bug list.

There was a bug with reading Inf and NaN's from ordinary data files which
I fixed pretty recently (2004-03-04).  I guess that will plug this one,
too, because the fix works one level above the datafile reading.

I'll delete this from TODO.  If it's an actual bug, somebody should file
it at SF.net.

> A linux rpm - hmm.  I think the distros will probably do that to
> suit themselves.  If necessary I can make a Mandrake rpm.
> that might or might not work under other rpm-based distros.

Making our own binary packages for Linux distros would be waste of effort.  
They'll all make their own ones anyway, eventually, so whatever we do
would be obsolete with the next distribution release (if not earlier).  
If RPM or .spec files really were compatible between a large subset of the
major distros, it might be worth it, but AFAIK, they're not. I see no
reason why we should do the distributor's work for them.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.