Re: Backport request for 6.0.4 release version

[sfgphm <sf...@gm...>]

Dear Ethan,

I can confirm that all four issues in the test script have been resolved
with commit [4d3398fdd] to branch-6.0-stable.
Thank you very much for taking the time to backport this non-trivial fix.

Best regards,
H. Motoyoshi

On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 8:17 AM Ethan A Merritt <me...@uw...> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>