[Plplot-general] PLplot-5.15.0 has been released

[Alan W. I. <Ala...@gm...>]

On behalf of all the PLplot developers I am happy to announce a new
release of PLplot is now available.  We have put a substantial amount
of effort into this release (some ~50 commits), and it is the only
version we support by answering questions here so downloading it and
building it is highly recommended.

For all the details concerning this release please follow the links
given in <https://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/news/2019/06/plplot-5150-has-been-released>
Note that the release notes linked there are especially important
because they give details concerning backwards incompatibilities
(an unfortunate necessity to support our on-going but slow battle
against cruft).  Those release notes contain official notices for
users of this release that have the following headings:

* CMake version compatibility
* Remove typedefs for PL_NC_GENERIC_POINTER and PL_GENERIC_POINTER
* Fix typedef for PLINT_NC_VECTOR

Those release notes also contain details of improvements for this release that
have the following headings:

* Bug fixes
* Update PLplot to be consistent with modern free software
* Rewrite the configuration of the INSTALL_RPATH target property
* Rewrite the rpath configuration of traditionally built examples
* Factor the PLplot export files
* Introduce symbolic constants in our color-map routines
* New implementation of the range checks for the validity of cmap0 and cmap1 user input
* New implementation of the -bg command-line option
* Implement ctest for the build system of the installed examples

Enjoy this new version of PLplot!

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state
implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time
Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project
(unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net);
and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net).
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