Update PDL::NiceSlice to new standard for $VERSION
Add Module::Compile engine option to PDL::NiceSlice

Still looking for the best way to implement the improved
PDL::NiceSlice sourcefiltering.  Unfortunately, all the
options so far all have a gotcha of some sore to them...
Update TODO file for consistency
clean up pdl executable on "make clean"
Remove NiceSlicing from FITS and Transform
Switch to legacy PDL::NiceSlice engine for PDL-2.006

Also update Release_Notes and Known_problems for the
PDL-2.004_012 CPAN developers release.
Update MANIFEST for PDL-2.004_012 release
Update VERSION to 2.004_995 for release candidate 1

This is the start of code freeze for PDL-2.006.
Small tweaks to PLplot Makefile.PL and test file

In the t/plplot.t, added some logic to skip the final test on darwin.
The SVG file PLplot generates is large but valid. Also zero-padded the
names of the output files (test2.svg --> test02.svg) so they would be
in numerical and lexical order in directory listings, for debugging purposes.
In the Makefile.PL, I added some logic to remove the 'temp' executable so
that the build directory would stay clean.
Update Known_problems with RAST to PNM conversion error in Netpbm.

No workaround in the test suite, it seems to be a rare problem.
Add pdl executable to .gitignore
Potential fix for crashing gd_oo_tests (SF.net #3518190).

The IMG_PTR needed to be a longlong, but was a long.  At that made all the difference.
I do not have BSD AMD64, but was getting a segfault after "ok 19" when the DESTROY
was called.  I have not removed the TODO from the gd_oo_tests.t, we should do that
after it is certain that this does not break anything for anybody else.
Update readme type files for CPAN developers release
Update version to 2.004_996 for final fixes and docs updates
Add Gnuplot_demo.pm support to perldl and pdl2

NOTE: the demo loading needs to be made more robust
against missing dependencies.  PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot
needs to install the demo file into the correct install
location.
Add Gnuplot demo support - move Gnuplot_demo.pm from PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot to the demos tree; group gnuplot with the other packages.
Insert friendly warning in case gnuplot isn't present.
Add $PDL::PREFIX_RE to perldl and pdl2

This automatically strips prefixes matching the PDL shell
prompts so that cutting and pasting from the example output
in the PDL Book will just work.  In addition to adding that
to perldl (already was in pdl2), we now strip out the
leading prefix if found from the entries in the history
list.
Fixed pdl-from-string doc error in QuickStart
Fix pod for Datatype_conversions so 'apropos types' finds it

This wouldn't be necessary if we had keywords in the PDL
docs database and tools.