I am happy to report that the epa_built "plplot_lite" comprehensive test on the MinGW/MSYS/Wine platform completed in 30 hours. One component of this test had to be repeated to get good results (see note (K) at <https://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/wiki/Testing_PLplot/#Testing%20Reports>). That repeated test and the rest of the comprehensive tests all gave no errors so I judge this result to be a success.
Arjen has encountered that parallel-build issue with MSYS before so from now on (as stated in note (K)) I think we should turn off all parallel aspects of epa_build on MSYS using the epa_build cmake option -DNUMBER_PARALLEL_JOBS:STRING=1 which will likely double the time required to finish this test again in my case (a two-cpu box). Note, you should _not_ use this option for Cygwin or MinGW-w64/MSYS2 where parallel builds should work just fine and make the comprehensive test finish much more quickly on machines that have more than one cpu. With regard to the release status, this successful comprehensive test result for MinGW/MSYS2/Wine removes the last major uncertainty with this release and the remainder of the release process should just be "turning the crank" using the instructions in README.Release_Manager_Cookbook. So I am hoping my next post here (in a few hours) will be a report of the actual release. Meanwhile, (and of course) the hard freeze on commits to the master branch still exists. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BPM Camp - Free Virtual Workshop May 6th at 10am PDT/1PM EDT Develop your own process in accordance with the BPMN 2 standard Learn Process modeling best practices with Bonita BPM through live exercises http://www.bonitasoft.com/be-part-of-it/events/bpm-camp-virtual- event?utm_ source=Sourceforge_BPM_Camp_5_6_15&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=VA_SF _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
