On 2007-05-19 23:49-0400 Andrew Schein wrote: > Hi all - > > I tried to install plplot today and encountered some difficulties. The > only version of PLplot I found on the source code link > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2915 is 5.7.3. > However, the main plplot page indicates that 5.7.3 is the development > branch and that 5.6.1 is the last stable release. Is there a link to > 5.6.1 anywhere? I am having trouble compiling 5.7.3, so if this is now > a stable branch I'll follow up with another question.
Hi Andrew: Thanks for your question about access to old releases. After some investigation I discovered that SF has rearranged the whole download area for PLplot (and presumably all other projects). In general, to get access to any older release you have to search for it (go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/plplot, click on the download menu, and click on the search function there). For example, to access all our recent releases (including 5.6.1), specify search dates from 2006 to 2008. However, that general mechanism is pretty clumsy so I have taken advantage of additional new SF download functionality and created a customized download page including access to all files from 5.7.3, 5.6.1, and also the historic libcd release (that special library is still relevant because it is used for the cgm device). Once I created the special download page for one platform, I could copy it to all other platforms. So now in the download menu, you have a choice of Default, Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux platforms, but currently they are all the same. (Later, if we decide to do windows binary releases, they will be different.) Following the above directions, 5.6.1 should now be readily available, but I should mention that 5.7.3 seems to work well for everybody that has downloaded it (1000 downloads since the end of March), is easy to build, and is very similar to what our next stable release (5.8.0) will probably be like. Thus, I believe it would be a mistake for you to give up on 5.7.3. In particular, 5.7.3 includes lots of new PLplot goodies including our recommended new CMake-based build system which has a lot of advantages both for developers and users. I suggest you follow the directions at http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki to build and install 5.7.3. If you run into any trouble with those directions, then post any problems to this list, and we will take it from there. 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); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
