Since yesterday, I have been installing software packages on my new Debian wheezy (currently testing but soon to be stable) system that are required to give about the most comprehensive tests of PLplot that are possible. The only software packages that I am missing are the agg library (no Debian package for that), and the perl PDL module (which is found in Debian, but which from previous experience will not be compatible with the svn trunk version of PLplot so I haven't bothered with it.) Through this time, I have been building and testing bits and pieces of PLplot and making appropriate changes to PLplot when necessary.
@ Werner: there is still a question I would appreciate you answering about how you think we should coordinate the move to D2. For now, I have accumulated my first steps toward that move into a patch (for later retrieval) and then reverted my local version to the svn trunk (D1) version of PLplot for the test mentioned below. @ Andrew: thanks very much for your advice about dealing with the many different versions of the gcc toolchain that are necessary on Debian for full PLplot testing (D1 requires 4.4, Ada requires 4.6, and the rest [C, C++, gfortran, gcj] require 4.7, but as you claimed, all those different gcc versions do not interfere with each other. With this entirely new platform and revision 12238 of the svn trunk version, and a brand-new CMake version (2.8.9) I had just built, the results for the test_noninteractive target in the build tree had no obvious run-time errors. Also, that test included running the the test_diff_psc target as a dependency, and those results showed there were no PostScript or output differences between our many different sets of standard examples for all computer languages that we support. Similarly, the test_interactive target and the install target had no obvious run-time errors. All these excellent test results were obtained for the default configuration (shared libraries and dynamic device drivers). That's really encouraging news about the current (revision 12238) quality of the svn trunk version of PLplot. Also there doesn't seem to be any build or test issues with CMake-2.8.9 which is nice to know. When we get closer to release I plan to do additional kinds of tests (ctest in the build tree, and the test_interactive and test_noninteractive targets for the two different build systems (CMake-based and Makefile+pkg-config based) for the installed examples tree not only for the default configuration but also for the combinations shared library+static devices and static library+static devices. 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); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
