I have just confirmed with our release manager, Hazen Babcock, that the development release of PLplot-5.9.2 is going ahead next weekend. The PLplot core developers get good results for the svn/trunk version (what will become the PLplot-5.9.2 release), but our testing is necessarily limited because we don't have access to the wide variety of hardware platforms, operating systems, library versions, and configurations that our users have access to. Thus, we would appreciate testing help from our users in the next few days on all the operating systems we support (traditional Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows [Cygwin, MinGW/MSYS, MinGW, and bare Windows]) to give us the best chance of shaking out any remaining bugs in this forthcoming release.
If you would like to help us out this way, please download the svn/trunk version of PLplot following the directions at http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=2915. (Especially note the warning about appending "/trunk" to the URL so you only get the trunk version as opposed to _all_ of our historical releases and branches as well as the trunk version.) Then follow the build instructions in the INSTALL file and the test directions (for both the build tree and install tree versions of PLplot) in the README.testing file. See also http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Building_PLplot and http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Testing_PLplot from where those files were recently copied. Note, our testing procedures have recently been updated to be quite comprehensive. They test our complete API for all language interfaces and devices that we support. If you get through the tests without any errors on your platform, then you can be virtually guaranteed that the forthcoming PLplot-5.9.2 release will be robust on your platform. Note, the tests take only a few minutes to run on an entry level PC because PLplot is quite efficient. However, you do need lots of disk space (typically 2GB in the build tree and 2GB in the install tree) to store all the plot results that are generated by the tests. Please report any issues you find back to this list. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
