Hi Arjen: As of revision 13051, I have implemented a typographical error fix that allows the test_tclsh_standard_examples target to work on MinGW/MSYS. When this change is combined with a previous commit (which for MinGW/MSYS continued to enable the test_pltcl_standard_examples target, but which removed that target from the list of overall interactive test dependencies because of <http://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/bugs/144/>) the result is an epa_build of the build_plplot_lite target using -DCOMPREHENSIVE_PLPLOT_TEST_INTERACTIVE=ON works for the very first time on my MinGW/MSYS/Wine platform. When this is combined with my previous (just before the release of plplot-5.10.0) good results for an epa_build of the build_plplot_lite target using -DCOMPREHENSIVE_PLPLOT_TEST_NONINTERACTIVE=ON, it appears we now have a clean bill of health for the "lite" version (excluding qt, cairo, wxwidgets, octave, and X) of PLplot on MinGW/MSYS.
To do such a complete test on Wine takes me several days of cpu time because of the horrible Wine startup latency issues I have remarked on in the past. So I prefer not to do such a test very often when the alternative for someone else with access to the Microsoft version of Windows should be an hour or so of cpu time. (On Linux, the equivalent tests of a complete version of PLplot take roughly an hour of cpu time so I assume the Microsoft Windows platform will finish comprehensive tests of the lite version of PLplot in substantially less than an hour.) Therefore, will you please confirm these results on your Microsoft version of Windows, and after that please confirm http://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/bugs/144/ on that platform to make sure that bug is not due to some issue with my Wine platform? We are still early in the release cycle for the forthcoming release of PLplot-5.11.0 so there may be a tendency on your part to assume testing is not important at this stage. But on the contrary I think it is most important now to establish some definitive test benchmarks for the MinGW/MSYS/Microsoft Windows platform. If you are willing to do that, then near the end of this release cycle you will only have to repeat these "canned" tests for substantially less thanan hour of cpu time to assure that no regressions have been introduced for the MinGW/MSYS platform by any changes we make in this release cycle. That is a much better situation than me performing these tests on Wine at the end of this release cycle which would substantially delay the release because of the days of cpu time that would require. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
