On Nov 17, 2007, at 2:04 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > 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?
I will create the release this afternoon (11/18) unless anyone tells me otherwise. -Hazen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
