From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513 Description of problem: This version is awfully old. Please include 3.8 instead (with pm3d and mouse support). As of this moment 3.8i is as stable as a "stable" version. "Conectiva" had it for quite some time already. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.7.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run 'gnuplot' 2. 3. Actual Results: G N U P L O T Linux version 3.7 patchlevel 1 Expected Results: G N U P L O T Version 3.8i patchlevel 0 :) Additional info:
URL? The latest official release I see is 3.7.2, released in March of this year.
It has not been released yet. But it is as stable as anything. You need to get a CVS snapshot per instructions on http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=2055 Here is Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker.de) take on a release schedule: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=gnuplot+release+3.8&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=2002&as_maxd=14&as_maxm=7&as_maxy=2002&selm=ad7qv9%24qim%241%40nets3.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE&rnum=4 <<< Thomas Willert <T.Willert> wrote: > I've found a gzip tarball of version 3.7.2 at the DANTE server as well as a > one of version 3.8 under testing subdirectory. 3.7.2 was originally meant as a quick-fix release for the benefit of Debian Linux. We never made that any more official because soon after its finalization, build problems on other platforms popped up. > Are there plans to release a new version and binaries yet? Expect a full release of 3.7.3 (including pre-built binary packages, and a prominent announcement, too) pretty soon now. This is mainly a bugfix release with some minor improvements (including some new terminal drivers), but no major new features. > Which improvements are developed actually? From 3.7.1 to the next "real" release (4.0): too many to list them here. 3.8 is the development series meant to become 4.0. There's no schedule for the release of 4.0, but it will probably happen this year. -- Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker.de) Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain >>>
Sorry, we really aren't going to ship snapshots of the development series. We'll add the latest stable release; this could be 3.7.3 or 4.0 if it's released in time.
And why is that? You did it with other stuff. And there are "released" packages that much more qualify for "alpha" release and yet they are included. Gnuplot team is famous for procrastinating the releases (look at 3.5 -> 3.7 release), the 3.8 has significan improvements to the user interface (mouse support for x11 terminal). Gnuplot is being used as a plotting engine by many programs (e.g. octave). The fact that many distributions are holding back on this 3.7 release forces maintainers of other gnuplot-dependent packages to hold on it as well. I sincerely hope you re-consider your stance on it.
It is our general policy to not ship software that upstream maintainers do not feel is ready; if they don't believe it's ready enough for a stable realease, we should not ship it.