Alan W. Irwin writes: > To the rest of the core developers here, please let us know immediately if > you have some development going on that makes an early May release > inconvenient for you.
Early May is good for me. I've been meaning to post a note giving people an idea of waht's on my mind with respect to PLplot development, and soliciting comments, so I'll take this opportunity. The main thing I am trying to get done on the short term, is merge the python branch that I forked about 16 months ago, to trunk. I am going to try to get that done comfortably ahead of this release, so that others can test it. Alan has raised some concern to me over the build system impact. So I want to get that on trunk as soon as I can and make sure people have a chance to test it and work with me to git the cmake part of it ironed out. The other things I am interested in working on I will plan to do on branches. As such, they should have no impact on the release schedule. Any branch that's not ready for merge, will just slide to a later release. Those things are: 1) Cleaning up the python pieces 2) Resolving some bugs in the Tk binding/widget. 3) A circuit plotting utility. I haven't been able to find anything out there that makes it really easy to draw electrical circuits from a simple ASCII spec. Well, I mean, not anything free. I'm imagining something like graphviz, but which can draw circuits instead of just bubble charts and FSM diagrams. The graphviz suite seems really cool for abstract diagrams. But for physical diagrams, where symbol shapes, and connection points matter a lot in the interpretation of the diagram, I can't find anything that really fits the bill. If anybody knows of a free circuit diagramer that I've missed, by all means, please do let me know. But I'm thinking this could be a cool and useful capability to have as a PLplot utility. 4) I plan to rerview the Pthreads work that's been done in PLplot. Until I look at it more closely, I can't say that there's anything I really view as needing to be done. But I'm using Pthreads more and more in my day job, and I want to be sure PLplot plays nicely in that environment. So, that's what I have in mind these days. None of these things need to gate the next release. I'll plan to do most of this on a (git) branch, and merge whenever they're ready. Releases off trunk can proceed apace. -- Geoff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
