Changes from 2.12.17 (properly part of the previous update) included
for reference.
Version 2.12.18 [2008 Sep 8 International Literacy Day]
Bug Fixes
* Improve security of temporary-file handling.
* Fix SourceForge bug #1985862 ... SVG output had axis linewidth
equal to curve line width.
Version 2.12.17 [2008 May 29 Oak Apple Day (England)]
New Features
* Add GNU readline support so that interactive mode will have
history, command editing, etc.
Bug Fixes
* Fix SourceForge bug #1913577 ... superscripts did not end
correctly, if preceeded by an inline `{}' block.
* Fix SourceForge bug #1761562 ... y axis name printed upside
down, for log axes in which user specified a high values at the
bottom end of the axis
pkgsrc changes: now uses readline and popt; added destdir support.
Upstream changes (not including for 2.12.17, which doesn't appear to
be posted):
Version 2.12.16 [2007 Jul 20 anniversary of the first moon landing, in 1969]
Bug Fixes
* Fix Debian bug #130802 ... postscript problem in landscape mode,
refreshed in gv viewer
* Fix Debian bug #434010 ... `set page landscape' requires `set
page size' first, but it should really default to something
reasonable instead.
Version 2.12.15 [2007 Apr 16 Mawlid, celebration of birthday of Muhammad]
Bug Fixes
* Fix SourceForge bug #1700978 ... html concept index mostly broken
* Fix SourceForge bug #1698924 ... box plots show missing data
* Fix Debian bug #417217 ... will not compile in GCC 4.3
* Fix SourceForge bug #1698116 ... poorly-positioned name of RHS y-axis
Version 2.12.14 [2007 Jan 08: Coming-of-Age Day (Japan)]
Bug Fixes
* Fix SourceForge bug #1630768 ... Fix to segfault in clipped
images (a bug that may have developed after version 2.13.3)
Version 2.12.13 [2006 Nov 06: Constitution Day (Tajikistan)]
Bug Fixes
* Fix SourceForge bug #1591475 ... Fix to compile in Solaris CC
* Fix SourceForge bug #1591062 ... Fix to compile in OpenBSD
Version 2.12.12 [2006 July 16: Yellow Pigs Day]
Bug Fixes
* Fix SourceForge bug #1523033 ... Malloc error (freeing something
already freed?)
* Fix SourceForge bug #1523032 ... `create columns from function'
bug, if there is an existing directory called `tmp'.
* Fix SourceForge bug #1491105 ... `set x axis labels' had no
affect for log axes (same for y)
Version 2.12.11 [2006 Mar 30: Hindu New Year]
Bug Fixes
* Fix SourceForge bug #1449546 ... x axis limits not correctly
inferred from `set x grid' (same for y).
Version 2.12.10 [2006 Jan 26: Australia Day]
Bug Fixes
* Fix SourceForge bug #1408259 ... PostScript file contained
private information. This was fixed by adding new commandline
arguments `-private' and `-no_private', the former of which (the
new default) means to not include the user's name, the
invocation arguments, or the command-file contents (see Invoking
Gri).
* Fix SourceForge bug #1285180 ... NaN was mishandled. (The bug
may have arisen in version 2.12.7 or thereabouts.)
* Port to the FreeBSD operating system, with help from Christopher
Illies and Roman Neuhauser.
* Fix SourceForge bug #1217273 ... missing some version numbers
within docs
* Fix SourceForge bug #1196613 ... user-supplied x-axis labels can
run offscale (fix for y-axis later...)
* Fix SourceForge bug #1198341 ... x-axis labels incorrectly
rotated (sometimes)
* Fix SourceForge bug #1199280 ... warning about `malloc' for RPN
assignments
* Fix SourceForge bug #1196115 ... `gri_unpage' and `gri_merge'
mis-installed
* Fix SourceForge bug #1153209 ... Emacs mode incompatible with
new version of `gv' PostScript viewer
Fix SourceForge bug #1101172 ... `gri -help' incorrectly stated
meaning of last argument(s)
* Fix SourceForge bug #835711 ... `draw gri logo' fails.
* Fix SourceForge bug #1098269 ... problem compiling on AMD64
machine. (Solution provided by Andreas Jochens, a Debian user.)
* Fix SourceForge bug #867515 ... problem with junk appearing in images.
* Fix SourceForge bug #875881 ... problem compiling with gcc
2.95.3 compiler.
Version 2.12.9 [2005 Jan 6: Feast of Epiphany]
Bug Fixes
* Fix SourceForge bug #1094087 ... `set path to' incorrectly
parsed colon-separated paths
* Fix SourceForge bug #1085788 ... `image *=', `image /=', `image
^=', and `image _=' all gave incorrect results
* Fix SourceForge bug #1084123 ... does not compile in fink
* Fix SourceForge bug #676767 ... on fink systems, `help' does not work
Version 2.12.8 [2004]
Bug Fixes
* Fix SourceForge bug #1019141 ... `draw arc' ignores the present
pen color
* Fix SourceForge bug #997741 ... PostScript broken on images with
y-axis decreasing, and enclosed by PostScript clipping
* Fix SourceForge bug #978822 ... documentation wrong on `set path to'
* Fix SourceForge bug #932203 ... misplaced labels caused by `set
x axis labels'
* Fix SourceForge bug #928277 ... `draw polygon' should take `cm'
and `pt' units
* Fix SourceForge bug #930259 ... fix `draw arc''s drawing of an
extra line (thanks for the fix, Wolfgang Voegeli)
* Fix SourceForge bug #923719 ... `draw curve overlying' ignored
the effect of `set dash'
* Fix SourceForge bug #914125 ... offpage points in axes were
reported as having been drawn by `draw curve'.
* Fix SourceForge bug #877613 ... `help' (and other commands using
temporary files) does not work in OSX/Fink version.
* Fix SourceForge bug #874483 ... `state save' doesn't keep track
of `dash' settings.
* Fix SourceForge bug #873245 ... inaccurate times are given in
the warnings about slow operations on OSX platform (days are
reported instead of seconds)
* Fix SourceForge bug #871477 ... the `missing value' feature
should not be the default. The solution involved adding a new
command `set missing value none', which is now the default.
Version 2.12.7 [2003 Sep 4]
Bug Fixes
* Fix SourceForge bug #800022 AKA Debian bug #208589, ... did not
build on some Debian platforms because it was based on an old
version of `automake'.
Version 2.12.6 [2003 Sep 1: Labour Day]
New Features
* Add `age' RPN function, for testing file ages (see age-rpn-operator).
Bug Fixes
* Fix SourceForge bug #773850 ... bounding-box is increased by
`draw symbol' even if (rectangular) postscript clipping is
active.
* Fix SourceForge bug #760130 ... Solaris cannot compile with
`C-l' in Makefile.
* Fix SourceForge bug #743134 ... bounding box not limited by `set
clip postscript'
* Fix SourceForge bug #750561 ... during compilation, `make'
rebuilds HTML docs even if up-to-date
makeinfo if no native makeinfo executable exists. Honor TEXINFO_REQD
when determining whether the native makeinfo can be used.
* Remove USE_MAKEINFO and replace it with USE_TOOLS+=makeinfo.
* Get rid of all the "split" argument deduction for makeinfo since
the PLIST module already handles varying numbers of split info files
correctly.
NOTE: Platforms that have "makeinfo" in the base system should check
that the makeinfo entries of pkgsrc/mk/tools.${OPSYS}.mk are
correct.
developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
the appropriate tool via USE_TOOLS (usually "gs:run"), and remove
ghostscript.mk. This change removes a rather out-dated file from
pkgsrc and switches packages to use the more compact implementation
of the Ghostcript-handling inside the tools framework.
around at either build-time or at run-time is:
USE_TOOLS+= perl # build-time
USE_TOOLS+= perl:run # run-time
Also remove some places where perl5/buildlink3.mk was being included
by a package Makefile, but all that the package wanted was the Perl
executable.
Several changes are involved since they are all interrelated. These
changes affect about 1000 files.
The first major change is rewriting bsd.builtin.mk as well as all of
the builtin.mk files to follow the new example in bsd.builtin.mk.
The loop to include all of the builtin.mk files needed by the package
is moved from bsd.builtin.mk and into bsd.buildlink3.mk. bsd.builtin.mk
is now included by each of the individual builtin.mk files and provides
some common logic for all of the builtin.mk files. Currently, this
includes the computation for whether the native or pkgsrc version of
the package is preferred. This causes USE_BUILTIN.* to be correctly
set when one builtin.mk file includes another.
The second major change is teach the builtin.mk files to consider
files under ${LOCALBASE} to be from pkgsrc-controlled packages. Most
of the builtin.mk files test for the presence of built-in software by
checking for the existence of certain files, e.g. <pthread.h>, and we
now assume that if that file is under ${LOCALBASE}, then it must be
from pkgsrc. This modification is a nod toward LOCALBASE=/usr. The
exceptions to this new check are the X11 distribution packages, which
are handled specially as noted below.
The third major change is providing builtin.mk and version.mk files
for each of the X11 distribution packages in pkgsrc. The builtin.mk
file can detect whether the native X11 distribution is the same as
the one provided by pkgsrc, and the version.mk file computes the
version of the X11 distribution package, whether it's built-in or not.
The fourth major change is that the buildlink3.mk files for X11 packages
that install parts which are part of X11 distribution packages, e.g.
Xpm, Xcursor, etc., now use imake to query the X11 distribution for
whether the software is already provided by the X11 distribution.
This is more accurate than grepping for a symbol name in the imake
config files. Using imake required sprinkling various builtin-imake.mk
helper files into pkgsrc directories. These files are used as input
to imake since imake can't use stdin for that purpose.
The fifth major change is in how packages note that they use X11.
Instead of setting USE_X11, package Makefiles should now include
x11.buildlink3.mk instead. This causes the X11 package buildlink3
and builtin logic to be executed at the correct place for buildlink3.mk
and builtin.mk files that previously set USE_X11, and fixes packages
that relied on buildlink3.mk files to implicitly note that X11 is
needed. Package buildlink3.mk should also include x11.buildlink3.mk
when linking against the package libraries requires also linking
against the X11 libraries. Where it was obvious, redundant inclusions
of x11.buildlink3.mk have been removed.
in the process. (More information on tech-pkg.)
Bump PKGREVISION and BUILDLINK_DEPENDS of all packages using libtool and
installing .la files.
Bump PKGREVISION (only) of all packages depending directly on the above
via a buildlink3 include.
This only lists new features, there are many bugfixes.
* Apply a patch provided Kawamura Masao, relating to (a) errors in
the documentation of file locations and (b) a programming error
hidden behind an unset precompiler flag.
* Add `sed' RPN operator, to work on strings
* Add `skewness' and `kurtosis' RPN operators, to work on columns
* In the documentation, change the names of some variables to be
clearer: `ll_x' is now written `xleft', etc.
* Add RPN binary operators `and', `or' for logical operations,
along with negation operator `not'
* Add `draw arc' command
* Add `set x axis labels' and `set y axis labels' commands.
* Permit specification of `pt' units for `draw label', `draw box',
`draw symbol at', and `draw line from'.
* Add `set clip to curve' command. _Caution:_
this needs extension, and may have a bug if called twice in
succession [but is this with an intervening `set clip off']
* Add `group' and `end group' commands, in preparation for SVG
output. So far these commands do nothing, and are basically just a
signal that users should not create commands with these names
since Gri will need them soon.
* Add `..xinc..' and `..yinc..' builtin variables.
* Make the `open' command accept URLs as filenames.
Gri is a language for scientific graphics applications. By 'language'
I mean that it is a command-driven application, as opposed to a
click/point application. It is analogous to latex or tex, and shares
the property that extensive power is the reward for tolerating a
modest learning curve. Gri output is in industry-standard PostScript,
suitable for incorporation in documents prepared by various text
processors.
Gri can make x-y graphs, contour-graphs, and image graphs. In
addition to high-level capabilities, it has enough low-level
capabilities to allow users to achieve a high degree of customization.
Precise control is extended to all aspects of drawing, including
line-widths, colors, and fonts. Text includes a subset of the tex
language, so that it is easy to incorporate Greek letters and
mathematical symbols in labels.
