Hi Alan,
As there are also the two examples 8 and 19 to extend with the new features for
both Fortran and Tcl, and the coming weeks are littered with work related
events a later date for the release would indeed give me more opportunity to
get the various tasks done.
Regards,
Arjen
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 2:09 AM
> To: Andrew Ross
> Cc: PLplot development list
> Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] Our next release
>
> On 2014-10-16 14:20+0100 Andrew Ross wrote:
>
> > [A release] sounds like a good idea. There have been a number of
> > useful improvements / fixes since [February].
>
> I agree a release fairly soon is a good idea because I don't want to
> disappoint
> anyone whose work remains unreleased because there has been too long a delay
> since our last release (in February 2014). That said, December is not sure
> at all and
> it may be several months later.
>
> For example, I definitely would like to see Arjen have good test results for
> Cygwin,
> pure MinGW, MinGW/MSYS and possibly
> MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platforms for this release, and similarly for Phil and the
> MSVC
> (and possibly Cygwin and MinGW-w64/MSYS2) platforms simply to finally be able
> to
> assure our Windows users that they can safely use the full power of PLplot on
> all
> Windows platforms rather than the relatively small subset of PLplot
> functionality we
> have tested on limited Windows platforms before. I also view it as quite
> important to
> see Arjen's Fortran interface changes in this release since they should make
> it
> _much_ easier for our Fortran users to employ PLplot.
>
> That is obviously a lot for Phil to do and even more for Arjen to do for the
> remainder
> of this release cycle so I am pretty sure the beginning of December is
> optimistic for
> them to finish the above, but we will see what they say about that. Anyhow,
> if they
> ask me to delay the release by a couple of months so they have time to finish
> the
> above without a lot of stress, I would be all for such a change. But I will
> wait to make
> any changes in the tentative release deadline until I hear what they have to
> say.
>
> Meanwhile, let's all join in on the propagation efforts required to get a
> clean
> test_diff_psc result because both Phil and Arjen may surprise me and
> effectively say,
> "no, there is still a reasonable chance we can do all of the above in the
> next several
> weeks so let's go for early December".
>
> Alan
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