On 2007-11-16 21:08-0500 Hazen Babcock wrote: > I installed gfortran 4.2.1 and it seems to have fixed whatever was causing > this problem [the Mac OS X string issues with gfortran 4.2.0].
That is excellent news, Hazen. gfortran 4.2.0 might well have the same issue on Linux (if any distro still installs that version) so I think the whole topic can be covered off by you making a one-liner in the release notes to suggest using gfortran 4.2.1 or later. So that leaves only the Mac OS X octave issue as our last potential release blocker, but I think you can cover that off as well by a short sentence in the release notes since nobody understands why that Octave version quit working (There is a note in our wiki that Octave worked before on Mac OS X.) Anyhow, I think there is good potential here to get 5.8.0 released as early as this weekend with some luck. What do you think of this possibility? 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
