Hi Tom: You obviously have a very keen interest in PLplot via your project at <https://github.com/tschoonj/gtkmm-plplot>. Just out of curiosity, how soon do you expect to mature that project (i.e., support all PLplot C++ API). And which of our plot capabilities do you personally expect to use the most once you have matured that project?
More below in answer to your recent comments.... On 2016-11-20 10:07-0000 Tom Schoonjans wrote: > Hi Alan, > > > Many thanks for your quick fix! It works fine: the pkg-config files are > working fine now. You are welcome. > I would like to renew my request for a PLplot bug fix release though. Currently, 3 patches need to be applied to get the 5.11.1 compiling and working properly with the latest CMake. I assume this request is on principle and not for your own personal needs since you can readily use the git version. Of course, I do agree with this principle of creating bugfix releases so I would like to grant this request, but I believe it is really too late in the current release cycle to do that. However, if I cannot convince Hazen to take over as release manager after 5.12.0 is out the door, then I promise to study what I need to do from the git perspective so that I will be well prepared to make a bugfix release after 5.12.0 if that becomes necessary. But I am not at all well prepared now in this regard (I am not as familiar with git as I should be) so I prefer to avoid this distraction until after the release of 5.12.0 is completed. > Also, this kind of bug would have been detected easily with a continuous integration setup: that’s how I discovered this particular bug in fact. I independently came to the same conclusion earlier today. This nameclash between our build system and the CMake code provided by the CMake official release (caused by the old CMP0054 CMake policy we are stuck with at the moment) should have (easily) been caught when CMake-3.7.0 was a release candidate. So to catch all such PLplot bugs early in the future (and/or to catch CMake regressions that affect PLplot in the CMake release candidate phase of their release cycle) we need to continously test the latest master branch version of PLplot that is built with the last tagged release of CMake, i.e., currently CMake-3.7.0, but presumably CMake-3.7.1 is coming fairly soon and CMake-3.8.0-rc1 will be coming slightly later, and they both will need to be tested this way when their time comes. I plan to set up such continuous testing here with the results posted at my.cdash.org. This should be trivial with PLplot's well-understood ctest facility. (In fact, years ago I published ctest results as a one-time experiment at my.cdash.org to make sure the process worked and generating nightly test results instead and posting them at my.cdash.org should be no more difficult.) Because of that triviality and because the results are potentially so useful during a release process, this is something I hope to do soon so we can get some use out of this continuous testing at the tail end of this 5.12.0 release cycle. By the way, my.cdash.org is a free service for a given project like PLplot with the limitation that only 3 different ctest users can publish results for a given project. So once I set this up for ctesting on my Linux platform, I will be looking for two others (one on a Cygwin or MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platform and one on Mac OS X to get as wide platform coverage as possible) to publish nightly ctest results at my.cdash.org. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
