On 2009-09-03 10:20-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Here are those issues again: > > (1) The above command-line parsing issue. The valgrind investigations I > suggested for this case may allow you to find the reason for this error and > fix it in a relatively small amount of time. Do you have time to work on > this before the weekend of September 12th/13th? > > (2) plend/qt segfaults on some platforms. This one is still pretty open > ended, but Alban appears to be actively investigating it so he might > well benefit by a week's delay in the release. > > (3) plend/xcairo segfaults on all (?) platforms. Certainly, I see this > issue on my platform. Hez, are you working on this one? > > (4) locale/qt issue which have not been fixed in the best way, yet, IMO. > I believe we can find the right solution before September 12th/13th. >
Thanks to Hazen and Hez for responding to my question. With regard to (1) it would be nice for Hazen to deal with this before the release (with gdb following Hez's suggestion about specifying command-line options to the gdb run command), but it appears to be an isolated problem and therefore not release critical. With regard to (2) from Alban's continuing experiments and especially from the good results he gets if he builds Qt4 himself, it is beginning to look like this test_plend issue is due to a distro packaging issue for Qt4 rather than anything wrong with our qt device driver. With regard to (3) nobody appears to be working on this issue at the moment, but (a) it might well take quite a while to fix it or (b) it might be an external library logic or building error which we could do nothing about (except file a bug report). With regard to (4) I think I am finally on the right track (see my response to Arjen's comments about LC_NUMERIC) so I hope to finish that today. So I now agree with Hazen and Hez we could/should release either tomorrow or Sunday. Hazen, please let us know on list the day you plan to do the release this weekend once you have finalized a convenient time to do that. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
