On 2007-05-21 00:34-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: > "Alan W. Irwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> My own feeling is we should do at least one more development release, >> 5.7.4, ... and a new windows device driver (Jim Dishaw). >> > > I defintely concur about having one more developmental release. I will > not have the windows driver "release quality" until late August. > I'm in the midst of finishing my dissertation and preparing for my > defense and the only work I do on plplot is to add a necessary feature > (you should see the debugging messages spewing out of the new driver...). > > So, I would prefer that the new windows driver makes it debut in a > developmental version rather than a stable release.
Jim, thanks for that update on the current experimental status of your windows device driver and also your currently severe time constraints. I should mention that your project as well as the rest of those that I listed are all in the "would-be-nice" category, and I don't think we should delay the proposed 5.7.4 and 5.8.0 releases for any of them. The reason why I feel this way is we have done a lot of work in the current series of development releases, and it would be nice to make that work available as a stable release as soon as possible so the conservative subset of our users that wait for stable releases will benefit from our work sooner rather than later. The only reason why I think we need one more development release before that stable release is to to get any kinks out of the release scripts and procedures caused by our conversion to subversion. Of course, depending on Hazen's time constraints that delay in the stable release might give any of the projects I mentioned (including your own) a chance to get into the last development release before the stable release. Note, your code does not have to be perfect to get into PLplot. I expect, instead, that Werner, Arjen, and Andrew (the core developers in a position to evaluate a windows device) will instead just want to make sure your windows device has some unique potential that does not exist in current windows devices. Once that uniqueness test is passed, I presume they would be willing to commit experimental device code donated by you with the device turned off by default so the experimental code only builds if specifically requested by the user. (Note, that is how I am treating Jerry Bauck's experimental Ada interface code that he has been working on recently.) But if you decide to contribute your code for evaluation by our core windows developers after 5.8.0, that is fine as well. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
