[Plplot-general] I am pleased to announce the official release of 5.2.1

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

Consolidation of the previous changes, bug fixing, new features. For all the
details see http://plplot.sourceforge.net/announce-plplot-5.2.1.html.

On a personal note, this is the last release of PLplot that I will manage. I
have been the release manager since January 2001, and I am quite proud of
the results our team have been able to achieve by releasing stable versions
of PLplot on a fairly regular basis.  (Typical numbers of downloads for a SF
release have grown to 4000 now, but that is only part of the story for how
users can obtain PLplot so I assume the actual numbers of our users are
substantially higher than 4000.) The last two releases have dealt with three
different paradigm shifts in the way we do things, and the present release
consolidates those changes and will make it much easier for developers and
documenters to do further incremental changes.  Thus, I believe the future
of PLplot is bright indeed. However, despite this success I have become
tired of the demanding job of release manager, and it time for somebody else
to take over. Fortunately, we have a volunteer, Rafael Laboissiere from the
existing development team, and I wish him all the best in his new role. This
change will allow me to use my limited PLplot time to work on some changes
in the 3D API that will directly benefit my research (and others as well
once my improvements have been completed and donated back to the project).

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin
email: ir...@be...
phone: 250-727-2902

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliation with the PLplot scientific plotting software package
(plplot.org).

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