New features, changes and fixes in gnuplot version 4.2.6
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* NEW xterm tektronix emulation 'set term xterm'
* FIX 'set xtics mirror' didn't work if xtics were previously unset
* FIX off-by-one pixel bug in width of boxes with palette or rgb color
* FIX center rotation of 'set view equal xyz' mode at screen center
* FIX sanity-check time ranges for axes with timeformat
* FIX pslatex blacktext and broken format specifier
* FIX PostScript code points for Lcaron, lcaron in encoding cp1250
* CHANGE If a 2D plot uses a Z-based palette, then autoscale cbrange
* CHANGE aquaterm accepts "size xx,yy" with a comma
* CHANGE Remove the EXPERIMENTAL flag from the wxt terminal
* CHANGE Remove the EXPERIMENTAL flag from the x11 terminal binary polygon mode
pkgsrc changes: use NetBSD libedit where possible.
New features, changes and fixes in gnuplot version 4.2.5
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* NEW ./configure --with-readline=bsd to use libedit rather than libreadline
* NEW command line option -e "command list"
* NEW 'set xtics rangelimit' allows creation of range/frame plots
* NEW "set view equal_axes xy{z}" does for 3D what "set size square" does for 2D.
* CHANGE updated svg terminal driver (back-ported from 4.3 CVS branch)
* CHANGE fillstyle empty really is consistently empty (not fill-with-background)
* CHANGE warn that some options to 'set datafile binary' are not implemented
* CHANGE handling of custom palette when postscript mode is set to "monochrome"
* CHANGE allow Z axis label in 3D plots to be rotated
* CHANGE do not save or restore axis tick labels that were read from a data file
* FIX interpolatation for pm3d surfaces given by both z and colour coordinates
* FIX infinite loop if axis tick increment is on the order of machine precision
* FIX initialize x11 enhanced text mode to use most recently requested font
* FIX emf handling of enhanced text at non-zero angle
* FIX 3D plots with fixed zrange were clipping against xmax rather than zmax
* FIX handling of uninitialized variables in fit "via" command
* FIX pm3d depthorder was ignoring interpolation setting
* FIX assignment of fill patterns to boxes in columnstacked histograms
* FIX Reserve room for user tic labels even if the format for autoticks is ""
* FIX bug in 4.2.4 that gave twice the requested left/right margin width
New features, changes and fixes in gnuplot version 4.2.4
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* NEW add support for enhanced text mode in the emf terminal driver
* NEW builtin functions 'strftime' and 'strptime'
* NEW set absolute plot margins in screen coordinates
* NEW "nocontours" keyword for splot
* NEW "undefine foo" clears previously defined user variable foo
* NEW allow contouring of pm3d surfaces
* NEW allow color by z value ("palette z") in 2D plots
* NEW "pause mouse close" waits until the plot window is closed
* FIX The documentation says that "set size ratio" is ignored in 3D. Make it so.
* FIX Do not re-quantize time tics interval explicitly set by user
* FIX (gd post) don't segfault on very long font names
* FIX allow variable color from input file for "with boxes", "with vectors"
* FIX don't run off the end of "set format" commands
* FIX Fix discontinuity in piecewise approximation of inverse error function
* FIX discard out of range vectors in the bitmap terminals (pbm, epson, etc)
* FIX 2nd colour in the colour box for negative palette in postscript
* FIX insure palette is initialized before any objects are drawn
* FIX wxt terminal was not obeying "set palette maxcolors"
* FIX Histograms did not correctly honor 'set style user increment'
* FIX Avoid segfault if tic labels are requested from a non-existent data column
* FIX emf terminal - allow fractional linewidth (fixes 0-length dash problem)
* FIX post terminal - fix parsing error for palfuncparam
* FIX post terminal - escape {} chars in enhanced text mode
* FIX clip "splot with labels" against plot boundaries in 2D mode
* CHANGE try harder to autotitle columns in using specs with expressions
* CHANGE gd.trm: use dynamically-allocated TTF font names
* CHANGE x11: more finely sampled color palette for PM3D
* CHANGE cgm: switch to using web_color_rgbs; approximate RGB colors
* CHANGE fig: more point types, 4.2-style font and size syntax for "set term"
* CHANGE emf: separate dashlength option (don't use linewidth for dashlength)
* CHANGE stacked histograms grow upward for values > 0, downward for values < 0
* CHANGE 'pause mouse button1' (or button2) does not disable zooming
* CHANGE built-in readline tries to recognize <home> and <end> keys
changes:
* NEW options front and back to "set colorbox"
* NEW character encoding support for emf and pdf terminals
* NEW "format" keyword for "set tics" and "set {x|y|...}tics"
* NEW allow user to set colorbar label rotatation if the bar is vertical
+bugfixes
1.) Remove directory "share/gnuplot/4.2/PostScript" during deinstallation.
2.) Prevent installation of "share/texmf-local/tex/latex/gnuplot" if
LaTeX is available (because we don't want to depend on "tetex").
3.) Update package list of "gnuplot-nox11" for version 4.2.
Bump revision of both packages.
* New plot styles
o Histogram
o Label plots
o Image data
o Filled curves
o Vectors
* Input from binary data files
* New plot elements
o RGB colors
o Arbitrary rectangles
* String handling
o String and text data read from datafiles
o User-defined string variables, operators, and functions
* Macros
* Auto-layout of multiple plots on a page
* Internal variables
* New or revised terminal drivers
o wxt
o emf
o gif, jpeg, png
o postscript
o ai
o epslatex, pslatex, pstex
o windows
* Canvas size
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.
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.
Closes PR #25450 submitted by me.
Ok'ed wiz@/snj@/root (at) garbled.net
Thanks to xtraeme@ for fixing GD's X11 issues.
From the CHANGELOG:
What's New
==========
The list of changes is immense this time, so only the highlights
can be given here. For the full details, see the NEWS file or the
ChangeLog, or look into the online version of the documentation at
http://www.gnuplot.info/docs/gnuplot.html#What_is_New_in_Version_4.0
You'll quite probably have to (re-)read large parts of the
documentation to learn all the details that have changed.
Major changes visible to users:
-------------------------------
o Global Command syntax change: instead of 'set no...' it's now
'unset ...'.
o Commands 'set data style', 'set function style' and 'set linestyle'
changed to 'set style {data|function|line}, respectively.
o Colour-coded plots in 3D and simulated 2D through the new 'pm3d'
plotting style.
o Boxes drawn by plotstyles 'boxes', 'candlesticks' and boxed errorbar
styles can be filled with solid colors or hatch patterns.
o New plot style 'with filledcurves' to fill an area defined by a curve
in solid colour.
o Windows, X11, OS/2 and GGI interactive graphical terminals now support
interaction with the plot window by mouse and hotkeys.
o The "enhanced" mode has been generalized from PostScript to some
other terminal drivers.
o 'set hidden3d' mode accepts non-grid data and hides them behind gridded
surfaces plotted with them.
o Several new terminal drivers: EMF, PDF, SVG, GGI, epslatex, aqua.
o New function to query if a user-defined variable exists.
o PNG and JPEG terminals using the GD library support libfreetype to
use true-type fonts.
o 'set label' can output a point symbol the comment refers to, and the
text itself can be rotated by arbitrary angles (on some terminals).
o The color of text elements can be changed.
o 'set size ratio' now affects 3D plots, too.
o The 'dgrid3d' can be switched between thin-plate splines and
the older weighted averaging method, at compile time.
o Some terminals now support 'koi8-r', ISO-Latin-2 and CP-852
encoding of user input.
o Windows gnuplot recognizes the Unix/X11 style '-persist' option,
and supports changing linewidth by core gnuplot commands.
o A native compilation option of gnuplot for Mac OS X is now part of
the mainline source, using the 'aquaterm' driver [3].
o Datafile comment character, column separator and decimal sign
can be changed.
o Arrows can be drawn with relative coordinates for the head, and the
heads can be filled.
o Allows 'set timefmt' independantly for each axis, and supports new
'%s' format for seconds-since-1970 input.
o Even more documentation misprints have been fixed, thanks to
Shigeharu TAKENO
Internal changes:
-----------------
o Reorganization of the entire source tree.
o Broken into considerably more source files than before.
o Large sets of related global variables have been collected into
relatively few global data structures (the 'axis' array and a
global 'key' data structure, e.g.).
o The gnuplot_x11 driver no longer is installed in the PATH, to
avoid confusion about it.
o Scaling and ticking of time/date axes respects the fact that
12 and 60 are not the same 10 or 100 much better.
And, obviously, more bug fixes than could possibly fit into this
narrow margin...
(alternatively, we could have renamed one to '<pkgname>-x11', but for the
element of least surprise, the default remains x11 enabled).
This will work much better than the previous attempt to build two packages
from one Makefile, which wasn't all thought out wrt to dependencies, buildlinks etc.
Bump PKGREVISION on plotutils and gnuplot for this.
Changes:
3.7.3
* Major: contributed code to re-add gamma, inverse normal, and
inverse error function
* Windows specific fixes, most visibly changing the 'pause' command
to avoid cpu hogging, and updated build procedures
* Improved metapost driver
* Make Linux driver work with devfs
* Numerous bugfixes backported from development version, see ChangeLog
* A large number of documentation misprints have been fixed
3.7.2
* Major: we have removed code that was labeled with a
non-commercial use clause. The effect is that this
removes the gamma, inverse normal, and inverse error
function from platforms that have no native
implementation.
* Support for BeOS
* New terminal drivers: emf (Enhanced Metafile Format),
epslatex, ggi (General Graphics Interface), pdf, svg
(W3C Scalable Vector Graphics)
* Updated png driver: web-friendly palette, transparent
images, explicit colour specification
* Updated HPGL driver: optional multi-pen support,
alternative plot sizes, variable font sizes
* Updated gnugraph driver: now requires GNU plotutils 2.2
or better
* Updated eepic driver: picture environment now scales with
"set size"
* Updated fig driver to fig file format 3.2
* Updated tkcanvas driver
* Fix font size option in pslatex driver
* configure-alike script for VMS
* Command substitution in double-quoted strings
* Vector clipping style for 2D plots
* Sort terminals by name before displaying
* Numerous bugfixes
