On Sep 20, 2013, at 8:56 AM, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote:
> 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 : I have Ada example 16 generating correct Postscript so the remaining work now is mostly slogging through Example 33. Jerry > 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 > __________________________ > 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 > __________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! > 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8, SharePoint > 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. BEST VALUE: New Multi-Library Power Pack includes > Mobile, Cloud, Java, and UX Design. Lowest price ever! Ends 9/20/13. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Plplot-devel mailing list > Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. BEST VALUE: New Multi-Library Power Pack includes Mobile, Cloud, Java, and UX Design. Lowest price ever! Ends 9/22/13. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=64545871&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
