I am sorry to say my input mail chain has been silently disrupted by my University today. What perfect timing for them to screw up!
However, I do have access to what people say (as long as you say it directly on plplot_devel) via http://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/mailman/plplot-devel/ As far as I can tell (what a lame interface!) only Andrew has said anything about the release since early this morning. Andrew Ross said: > As you can see, even compiling with debug flags (-g) the output is not particularly enlightening. Looks like it is not the Qt version per se that is the problem. Perhaps g++ version? Anyway, I'm still not sure how to take this further. Since it is not reproducible by you and most Linux users with use dynamically loaded drivers I don't think this is release critical, but I would like to understand it. This is a long shot, but I have to ask: did you remember to build all the dependencies first using "make test_qt_example"? I get very similar valgrind error reports to you if I forget to do that. Assuming the answer is yes, (i.e., you do have a real alarm rather than a false one), then I agree that g++ version comes to mind as a possible cause of this. Thank you for giving me your opinion this is not release critical. Following that hint I will move on without turning off qt_example for the non-dynamic drivers case, but I would appreciate you saying something about your finding memory management issues on one platform which are not present in my platform in README.release. Meanwhile, I have made some good progress today with the last pre-release task concerning MinGW/MSYS/Wine tests. A limited build of buildtools (just swig and pkg-config) went well as did build_plplot_lite with no run-time testing. I have currently just started with run-time testing using comprehensive_test.sh. It's going very slowly because that is the nature of the Wine beast; sometimes it takes 30x (!) longer to complete a computer task than the equivalent task run on Linux (principally because of horrendous startup latency for the thousands of little tiny tasks (such as each CMake progress report) that occurs for a given build and test). So far all ctest tests have passed and comprehensive_test.sh has now started the test_noninteractive target in the build tree. This is just for the shared libraries/dynamic devices case so there is still lots (!) more that comprehesive_test.sh will do. That is finish the shared library/dynamic driver case with test_noninteractive and test interactive in the build tree, installed examples tree, and (traditional) installed examples tree. Then it will do it all over again for the shared library/static devices case and also the static library/static devices case. However, there are no issues so far so it seems promising. IMPORTANT. I am declaring a commit freeze (for everything except things like README.release) at this point until the release process is done since I think there is a fairly good chance this final test will be a success overnight which would imply I could start the release process tomorrow (Saturday) morning (Pacific time). That involves lots of tasks that are listed in README.Release_Manager_Cookbook so even if I get an early start tomorrow in may be Sunday before I finish. Note again, e-mail communication with me is pretty problematic at the moment, but that could change at any time (whenever the University gets its act together about e-mail). For now, I am monitoring the plplot-devel archive via the web so say something there if you find anything that is incredibly release critical. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
