We still seem on course for a release of 5.9.10 on September 28th (8
days from today).

Here is the status of the language bindings and examples.
All is well except for the following languages:

ada
   Missing examples            :
   Differing postscript output :  16 33
   Missing stdout              :
   Differing stdout            : 
adathick
   Missing examples            :
   Differing postscript output :  16 33
   Missing stdout              :
   Differing stdout            : 
ocaml
   Missing examples            :
   Differing postscript output :  16 33
   Missing stdout              :
   Differing stdout            : 
d
   Missing examples            :
   Differing postscript output :  33
   Missing stdout              :
   Differing stdout            :

My understanding is that Jerry is working on the Ada issues, Hez is
working on the OCaml issues, and Andrew is working on the D issues so
there appears to be a good chance that we will have completely clean
test_noninteractive (and test_interactive) results for this release.

Here is what I hope to get accomplished before this release.

1. Implement sanity checks on NULL arrays for pllegend and plcolorbar.
This change means that any input array that is used internally (rather
than being ignored because of the specified input options) will be
checked to make sure the array pointer is not NULL.  Normally C users
of these functions use NULL for the pointers to all arrays they think
are ignored for a particular call because of the combination of
options they have specified for that call.  But if they make a mistake
in the arrays they think will be ignored, these planned sanity checks
should catch that mistake.

2. Add paragraphs to advanced.xml describing what pllegend and
plcolorbar do.

3. Disable the production of the dvi form of documentation and make
the corresponding change to our website (as discussed previously).

4. Update README.release to reflect the current status of pllegend and
plcolorbar.

5. Update README.release to reflect the current status of the Cygwin
platform.  (This depends on Arjen's planned updates to our Wiki
describing his recent Cygwin platform breakthroughs.)

6. Fix other Website issues such as the new locations for our Allura-based
resources and additional pages for example 33.

7. Tests for this release during the last few days before the release.
At minimum I plan to run scripts/comprehensive_test.sh, but I also
hope to do some Wine testing as well with build_projects if I have
time.

8. Do everything in README.Release_Manager_Cookbook (and edit that
file if I change anything in that procedure) to get out the release
itself.

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); 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).
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