Thanks everyone for the recent series of commits that fixed a lot of bugs and also arrived at a reasonable stopping point for the wxwidgets device driver changes. The only additional change planned for this release that I am aware of is Hez's docbook documentation for his OCaml bindings. It would be great to get that into the forthcoming release, but if Hez is tied up with something else, I don't think we should delay the release for it.
Note, there has been a lot of recent change so we should concentrate in the next two weeks (assuming the release date is the weekend of December 6th) on thorough testing of svn/trunk on all platforms accessible to those lurking on this list. If you are serious about helping with the testing this means you will run ctest in the build tree and also do install-tree testing of the common build scenarios such as (1) shared library/dynamic devices; (2) shared library/static devices; and (3) static library/static devices. All three scenarios have been available for Unix for a long time, and now they are available for all Windows platforms as well. Furthermore, those who are using GCC should use the -fvisibility=hidden option for gcc, g++, and gfortran to make sure the recent visibility changes are correct for gcc for your platform. MinGW, Cygwin, and bare Windows testers should try to install as many of the PLplot device driver prerequisite libraries as possible so your build, ctest, and install tree tests the maximum possible features of PLplot. Just for fun, I may give the Windows side of testing a try. I have always been most curious about what the wingcc device driver looks like so this would be my chance to find out. I have no access to commercial Windows (and don't plan to open my wallet for that), but there was an interesting article in LWN (http://lwn.net/Articles/307732/ available to LWN subscribers now and available to everybody for free 6 days from now) about RedHat's efforts to use MinGW on a Linux WINE platform to do their Windows virt tools application testing. I don't see why that general approach would not work for PLplot as well so I will at least explore the idea. If it turns out to be really easy, I may end up doing WINE platform testing for this release to supplement the Windows test efforts of Arjen and Werner, but if there is a lot involved, then I will delay that "interesting" test effort until later. 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 the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
