Re: Backport request for 6.0.4 release version

[Ethan A M. <me...@uw...>]

On Tuesday, 9 December 2025 15:20:28 PST sfhm wrote:
> Dear Ethan,
> 
> I would like to request a backport to the 6.0.4 release.
> 
> I have observed differences in polygon color rendering between the
> development version and previous release versions (including
> 6.0.4-testing). The development version renders polygons with the intended
> colors, while the release versions render them with different colors.

[snip example] 

> If the fix for this issue in the development version is sufficiently
> stable, I would greatly appreciate its backport to the 6.0.4 release, even
> if only for some of the cases rather than all of them.

Unfortunately, that is not a trivial change.  

The code that deals with how fill color and border color are specified,
stored, and eventually applied to graphical elements in the plot has
diverged between 6.0 and the development branch.

A partial list of relevant commits in 6.1 that do not apply cleanly to 6.0
	c92721 fc9818 

Nevertheless, it is possible that the specific cases of "splot with polygons"
in your test script could be handled either by some subset of the changes
currently in the development branch or by some ad hoc fixes for 6.0.
The trick is not to break anything else.

I will look into it, but no promises about 6.0.4.  

 Ethan