The lack of testing is a bit of a concern. There are also several outstanding issues which we want to address so I suggest the next release might not be too long in the pipeline.
Andrew On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 10:40:05PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > Hi Jerry: > > I am moving this discussion to the list because of some general comments I > want to make. > > On 2010-06-04 21:03-0700 m...@bauck.net wrote: > > > Alan, > > > > All done with Ada examples 28 and 29. That should make Ada up-to-date with > > respect to the bindings and matching C Postscript output. > > Thanks very much for bringing the Ada bindings and Ada examples into > consistency with C. I confirm that perfect Ada result here as well. > > So we go into the release with only the following remaining non-perfect > PostScript comparisons: > > octave > Missing examples : 19 > Differing postscript output : > Missing stdout : > Differing stdout : > > perl > Missing examples : > Differing postscript output : 03 16 19 25 29 30 > Missing stdout : > Differing stdout : > > lua > Missing examples : > Differing postscript output : 19 > Missing stdout : > Differing stdout : > > which is acceptable, although I hope those straightforward Perl/PDL and lua > issues can be sorted out soon after the release. > > The other point I want to make about this release is that according to the > results posted at > http://miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Testing_PLplot, this > release is only tested on Debian and Ubuntu. I wish to thank Hazen and > Andrew for the Ubuntu test results they added to my test results for Debian > Lenny. I have not reported further tests there of MinGW/MSYS on Wine > because those have not yet been completed. Furthermore, others have failed > to report anything for various Mac OS X and Windows platforms as well as > Linux platforms other than Debian and the closely related Ubuntu. > > This lack of cross-platform testing is a major concern for this release, and > it may come back to haunt us with platform-dependent bugs we let slip > through due to lack of such testing. Anyhow, I hope we do a lot better > throughout the next release cycle with on-going test reports at > http://miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Testing_PLplot for Debian, > Ubuntu, and other Linux distros such as Fedora, various Mac OS X platforms, > and all the varieties of Windows platforms (including MinGW/MSYS on Wine > from me). > > Hazen, I don't plan any other commits until your release process is finished > tomorrow. Good luck with 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 > __________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > _______________________________________________ > Plplot-devel mailing list > Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
