There is a new beta version, 1.02. A workaround for a problem in MetaPost was added. If you wish to test it, download mfpic102.zip (1326K), unzip it into an appropriate testing directory, and then run tex or latex on mfpic.ins. Please report any problems (email address in README). (Alternatively, download mfpic.tds.zip (1401K) and unzip it into any TDS-compliant texmf tree.)
Barring any reports of problems, this is the full distribution of what will be mfpic, version 1.02. The change from 1.01 is to write verbatimtex material (\mfpverbtex{}) in a way that avoids a problem with the way MP processes the TeX code.
The change from 1.00 is the fixing of a bug in grafbase in the command plrvectorfield where two plus signs should have been minuses.
The main chainges in 1.00 over 0.9 are:
\setfilenametemplate{my\_-\#.mps}
\opengraphsfile{figs}
then MetaPost will name your files "myfigs-1.mps",
"myfigs-2.mps", etc. The placeholder \_ will be replaced with
the MetaPost jobname (the argument of \opengraphsfile) and the
placeholder \# will be replaced with the figure number. The
figure placement macros adjust accordingly. If your MetaPost is
too old, then it will not rename the files while TeX will look
for the new names. Therefore, do not use this unless your
MetaPost is recent (minimal version is beta .900).Current and previous versions. The version to be found on CTAN is 1.01. The latest development version (if any) is the one below with the highest number/letter. Aside from PDF files, all the files in these archives are plain ASCII files with Unix-style line endings, except for version 0.5.01 and earlier where all files have DOS-style line endings. Conversion of ASCII files may be necessary on some OSs in either case. mfpic07a.zip contains two PDF files, which accounts for most of the increase in size from previous versions, and 0.8b+ have 3 PDFs.
The manual for version 0.6 may be read or downloaded (hyperlinked PDF with index of commands): mfpicdoc.pdf. The manual for later versions is included in the release.