Bug 592563

Summary:	gnuplot - please update to version 4.4
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3	Reporter:	Tobias Burnus <burnus>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Dr. Werner Fink <werner>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Factory
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Description Tobias Burnus 2010-03-31 06:29:02 UTC

Could gnuplot be updated to version 4.4 - and could be "wxt" no longer be marked as "experimental" (that's a SUSE patch; upstream uses it even as default already for 4.2.0).

Main page:
  http://gnuplot.info/
Announcement/Release notes:
  http://gnuplot.info/announce.4.4.0
NEWS file:
  http://gnuplot.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gnuplot/gnuplot/NEWS?revision=1.180.2.13&view=markup
Download:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/files/
Demo gallery:
  http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo/


Particularly noteworthy features include:

- smoother graphics based on the pango, cairo, and wxWidgets libraries
	New drivers:  pngcairo pdfcairo wxt

- client-side interactive display using the HTML 5 "canvas" element
	See:  http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_canvas/

- better internationalization, support for UTF-8 character encoding

- support for transparency and alpha-channel image generation and handling.
  PNG images can be read in and manipulated as plot elements.

- extended command line syntax, including iteration
	e.g.:  plot for [i=1:10] foo(i)
	       plot for [file in "a.dat b.dat c.dat"] file 

- new plot styles:  circles rgbalpha

Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2010-04-07 10:30:53 UTC

update done ... btw. the old gnuplot had already UTF-8 support as I've
added the patch by my self .