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 150 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/2018/12/plplot-5140-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 Fortran cruft * Remove Tcl/Tk cruft * Remove plmap cruft * Remove Perl/PDL examples * Remove all previously deprecated functions * Official deprecation of plshade1 * Official deprecation of C++ cruft * plplot.org and www.plplot.org are now our official domains * We have removed the "sys" subdirectory from our source tree * Imported PLplot targets now must use the "PLPLOT::" prefix for the target name * Drop -single_module linking option that was previously forced for Mac OS X * Changed color interpolation for plscmap1l and plscmap1la Those release notes also contain details of improvements for this release that have the following headings: * Bug fixes * Update control of Python version * Rewrite the build-system logic for determining PYQT_SIP_DIR and PYQT_SIP_FLAGS * Implement plStatic2dGrid * Replace use of the deprecated WIN32 and __WIN32__ macros by the _WIN32 macro * Difference report default device changed from psc to svg * Resolve the remaining difference report issues * Improve command-line parsing * Cleanup of plmap * wxwidgets development status * First step toward using best CMake-3 practices for our build system * Update PLplot to be consistent with modern free software * Rewrite documentation of PLplot testing * Configure the ps and psttf device drivers just like all other device drivers Enjoy this new version of PLplot! Alan __________________________ 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). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
