On 2007-09-17 19:59-0700 Jerry wrote: > Can someone remind me of the anticipated date for the next release?
The next release is 5.8.0-RC1. Ideally, that release candidates will be virtually identical to the final stable release, 5.8.0 that will be done after a suitable testing period for 5.8.0-RC1. Thus, all issues that people are actively working on to get into the stable release should be resolved before the 5.8.0-RC1 release. One of those issues is some recently discovered problems for the gd.c device driver that Andrew Roach is actively trying to fix. I would prefer to wait until that is sorted out (or Andrew says he cannot fix it in the short term) before we release 5.8.0-RC1. Now that pngcairo is giving such good-looking results, Hazen and I also have to deal with some script changes for generating the website examples using the pngcairo device before we can release 5.8.0-RC1. If anybody else has an active issue they are working on, speak out now! Once the final decision is made to release 5.8.0-RC1, I think there won't be a lot of lead time to the actual release of 5.8.0-RC1 because we have already taken more time with it than we originally planned. Hazen and I have not yet discussed how he will release 5.8.0 after the testing period for 5.8.0-RC1 is completed, but I assume he will do only absolutely necessary bug fixing changes to 5.8.0-RC1 on the 5.8.0 tag used for the 5.8.0 release while any normal development after the release of 5.8.0-RC1 would go into svn trunk and thus not be part of the 5.8.0 release. So, Jerry, to answer the question that is probably behind your question, now would be a good time to make a code drop of any recent Ada changes you have done if you want to get them into either 5.8.0-RC1 or 5.8.0. The next chance for a stable release after 5.8.0 is probably a year from now. 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: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
