Now that the new build system for the installed examples has been completed, my next plans are to finish off the long-promised time stuff (leap intervals, updated example 29, etc.) and to give moral support and advice to Hazen as he implements changes to the core build system (not the new build system for the installed examples like implied yesterday) to build and install his new pyqt4 extension module and to install a python example that uses that extension module.
Those two mini-projects should complete my planned development work for this development release cycle leading up to the 5.9.5 release, and in fact that is the only development I plan to do before our next stable release (5.10.0) as well. So as far as I am concerned the next release should be 5.9.5 (to user-test everything we have done in this release cycle), and the following release after that should be 5.10.0. I am thinking along the lines of 5.9.5 released two months from now (start of August) and 5.10.0 released one month after that (start of September) with mostly bug fixing and little development done between the two to help increase the chances that 5.10.0 will be rock solid. I am proposing those dates just to be concrete, and anything plus or minus a month from them is fine with me (e.g., start of July, start of August). Assuming that sort of release schedule doesn't cause major problems for anybody's development plans here, Hazen, would you be able/willing to do both those releases on roughly that sort of time scale? 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
