downladed. tested. i like it.

Allin Cottrell schrieb: > Hello all, > > Getting ready for a new release, I have a question for you. In current > CVS and the Windows snapshot, I have changed the default aspect ratio > for time-series graphs. Most graphs are 640 by 480 pixels, but I've > made time-series plots more of a "letterbox" format, 680 by 400 pixels. > > I plan to make this configurable via the GUI, but not before this > release. So the question is, do you like the new default or not? If > not, it is very easy to go back to the old default of 640 by 480 for > all > graphs; if so, this will be the time-series default in the release. > > Allin. > Hi, I haven't tested it and may well like it, but maybe one thing to consider: Why change it now when it's not configurable but will be in the near future? It seems to make more sense to change the default and the configure option at the same time. It's not the case for me, but imagine some users have everything set up, possibly in a script, relying on the present format. And with the new release their automated toolchain would be suddenly "broken", for no pressing reason AFAICS. I may be missing something here, but in general I think backwards compatibility is important for software.

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: > In principle, I agree with Sven; I am all for backward compatibility > as much as possible. However, in this case I can't imagine any > scenario in which this change would cause any disruption of any sort. I'm with Jack on this one: it's hard for me to imagine a case where an existing gretl script depends on the pixel dimensions of an interactively generated on-screen PNG.