The freeze deadline is now chiselled in stone as December 17th, 3 days from now. That deadline is just the end date for intrusive fixes for this release, but as far as I know nobody is planning any more of those. Of course, you should expect small bug fixes and large or small documentation updates to continue through to the day of the release which might be only December 22 (if our further comprehensive testing doesn't turn up any release critical issues), or December 27th (if there are some release-critical issues to address).
I personally have already finished my comprehensive testing with completely satisfactory results on Debian Jessie with both CMake-3.0.2 and CMake-3.7.0 (see <https://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/wiki/Testing_PLplot/#Testing%20Reports>). So I am happy with the quality of what is going to become 5.12.0 right now although more comprehensive test reports from you guys would be appreciated to confirm that. Note, the recommended way to do such testing now is time (nice -19 scripts/comprehensive_test.sh --do_submit_dashboard yes --do_test_interactive no) --do_test_interactive no makes your life much easier. --do_submit_dashboard yes is optional. It submits a dashboard consisting of the ctest subset of the results to <http://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=PLplot_git> to be displayed in quite nice format without violating your privacy. If nobody has submitted a dashboard on the day you try this, and you would like to see what they look like before submitting one yourself, there should always be some good dashboard results on today's date, 2016-12-14, for you to look at. nice -19 allows your computer to be usable during this long test (typically a couple of hours if the interactive part is turned off like above). time () provides a nice time summary of how long it took at the end. The above comprehensive test creates a tarball (stored in ../comprehensive_test_disposable/comprehensive.tar.gz) report collecting all sorts of information about the test such as what environment variables you set that are relevant to the test, a complete listing of the files that were created by the test, CMakeCache.txt files, and lots of output results from various cmake and make invocations made during the comprehensive testing. Please look at the contents of that tarball to satisfy yourself there is nothing there that violates your privacy. Then follow up by sending me that tarball to help me diagnose what went wrong and help you to avoid it if the script did not complete or else post a summary of your comprehensive test report at <https://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/wiki/Testing_PLplot/#Testing%20Reports> with your permission when the script does complete (with a summary of whatever components of PLplot you had to drop to obtain that desired completion on your particular platform). Note on Debian Jessie I got through the entire test with no such issues at all, but other Linux platforms, and especially Windows and Mac OS X platforms might not be as kind to you. But that is the point of the above reports; to find out the platform limitations of the forthcoming PLplot-5.12.0 release, and your help in establishing those limits on the platforms that are accessible to you would be much appreciated. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
