On 2015-09-09 22:12-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote:

> I'm still working on plmeta, though my progress is slow right now do
to some other commitments. If you want to temporarily disable, that
would be fine with me. I will try to see if I can get something
finished by the deadline. Thanks and sorry for the delay.

Hi Jim:

It is good to hear that you anticipate finishing something large by
the deadline for pushing large changes to master despite your other
time commitments.  I am sure we all look forward to testing whatever
you can come up with.

Just to clarify, as release manager I like our release deadlines to be
fairly flexible to keep the release process reasonably friendly and
encouraging for our developers.  So if you have something that is
honestly almost ready to go, I am not going to be too hard-nosed about
that deadline which is supposed to be September 19th IIRC.  Thus, if
we delayed that deadline to September 26th it would not kill us.
However, if it turns out you cannot be done with some big change by
that date I will probably say "mature your work on a private topic
branch and be ready to push it to master at the very start of the next
release cycle" in the interest of getting this next release out the
door with sufficent time allowed to do the required iterated bug
fixing and comprehensive testing for all the big changes (such as the
recent wxwidgets changes) already in this release.

After the official freeze on large changes being pushed to master is
in effect (likely either September 19th or 26th from the above
discussion) then if plmeta still does not build at that stage, I will
completely disable plmeta (by commenting it out of
cmake/modules/drivers-init.cmake).  For now as a matter of convenience
for you in getting rid of this plmeta build issue I will leave it as
disabled by default (i.e., you can still attempt to build plmeta if
you specify -DPLD_plmeta=ON or -DDEFAULT_ALL_DEVICES=ON).

Alan
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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).
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