Examples 13 and 15 worked correctly with xwin on Debian. Did it crash on the
initial draw or on a resize?
> On Feb 24, 2015, at 3:20 PM, Phil Rosenberg <p.d.rosenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Alan
> Both example 13 and 15 give some very odd behaviour with xwin on my centos
> machine. 13 crashes with a very large error message, 15 hangs with only a
> small section rendered.
>
> Phil
> From: Alan W. Irwin
> Sent: 24/02/2015 19:51
> To: Phil Rosenberg
> Cc: Jim Dishaw; PLplot development list
> Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] Redesigned wxWidgets Driver
>
> On 2015-02-24 17:55-0000 Phil Rosenberg wrote:
>
> > Hi Alan et al
> > I have updated the bug report on SF. A number of the issues are now
> > fixed. I'm not sure I will have time nor if I should start fixing any
> > more of these before the release deadline. The ones that concern me
> > most are:
> >
> > super/subscript problems
> > Aspect ratio issues
> > hatchings
> > inline text changes
> >
> > The hatching issue might have to be dealt with because whatever it is,
> > it seems to be causing crashes in the Xwin driver.
> >
> > Inline text changes probably requires an overhaul of the text
> > parsing/buffering so it too intrusive to do now.
> > The other two issues may well be internal to the driver, if I get time
> > I will look at them, but I'm not sure I will.
>
> It appears there are two remaining release-critical issues.
>
> 1. You should do one last check of Ubuntu and CentOS to make sure my
> recent drop of explicit linking to the rt library does not cause
> problems on those platforms. (And if it does, a one-line change
> should fix it).
>
> 2. I haven't experienced xwin crashes myself. Could you give me an
> explicit test that fails for you so I can verify this regression?
>
> I view the rest of the issues as "rough edges" on a newly rewritten
> device that we can safely postpone fixing until after the release.
>
> Issue 1. above should be trivial to check (and fix if necessary).
>
> Issue 2 is a troubling regression since xwin has been reliable for as
> long as I can remember. Therefore, I think it is important that we
> find a solution to this regression before the release. Once you give
> me a test that causes xwin to reliably crash here, then I can use that
> as a basis for figuring out (with git bisect) what commit caused this
> regression.
>
> Alan
> __________________________
> Alan W. Irwin
>
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>
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