On 2009-09-16 12:06-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote:

> Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>> Hi Hazen:
>> 
>> I have a number of PLplot projects I am actively working on at this time.
>> Those include
>> 
>> * Improving the ocaml build.
>> 
>> * Finishing up the new testing framework.
>> 
>> * Bug fixing (such as the -bg bug that was just demonstrated).
>> 
>> Once the above three are taken care of I also plan to restart work on 
>> adding
>> functionality to libqsastime, extend example 29 to show off that new
>> functionality, etc.  This is long overdue, and I am determined to get it in
>> this next release if at all possible.
>> 
>> Finally, as discussed previously I intend to organize a testing group to 
>> help
>> improve the quality of the next release, but that testing will add
>> essentially an extra week to the release cycle as well as consume quite a
>> bit of my time.
>> 
>> So a release near the beginning of October like we discussed before would
>> not fit my needs at all, and I wouldn't mind a bit if you put off the
>> release for at least a month and maybe more depending on how quickly I can
>> get through all the above projects.
>
> Ok.

Thanks for that delay.

> Do you think there will be enough changes to warrant another development 
> release before the stable release?

Probably, but let's see how it goes.

Alan
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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).
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