This if official notice from your friendly release manager that the freeze has just been declared for the 5.12.0 release that is scheduled roughly 10 days from now. So further changes during this test period between now and release are going to be limited to non-intrusive bug fixes (except for documentation updates). We are currently chasing a pretty serious wxwidgets device bug (an unexplained long pause where everything is idle between one example using that device and the next example during interactive testing) and a pretty serious wxwidgets binding bug (our current code is making some incorrect assumptions about when one particular wxwidgets event is going to fire) on Linux so the actual release date is a bit uncertain. However, I currently hope to release PLplot-5.12.0 soon after Christmas, i.e., roughly 10 days from now depending on how that bug fixing goes and depending on any other bugs that show up during this testing period.
If you are interested in what tests have already been run on what platforms, I have just finished documenting those (most recently for Cygwin, MinGW-w64/MSYS2, and Linux) for largely unconstrained comprehensive tests at <https://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/wiki/Testing_PLplot/#Testing%20Reports> and <https://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/wiki/Testing_PLplot/#Fortran%20Testing%20Reports>. That latter summary table has been set up specifically for those here who have an interest in any issues with the completely new Fortran binding we will be part of this release. So far those Fortran comprehensive test results are completely reassuring. For example, the NAGFOR compiler (notorious for being picky about standards compliance) generates no errors or warnings for our new Fortran binding and examples. But I urge those with an interest in Fortran here to comprehensively test now on their platforms (and in particular with their favourite Fortran compiler) to make sure they will be able to use this new Fortran binding for this release we are about to make. Please read the release notes in README.release for the git master branch version of PLplot (that version will be turning into this release soon) for all the Fortran caveats which are typically backwards incompatibilities we have introduced to produce a really clean Fortran interface. N.B. an additional important caveat is this new Fortran binding requires good standards-compliant support for the Fortran iso_c_binding module upon which our new Fortran binding is based. So, for example, gfortran-4.9 and higher qualifies, but 4.9 is the minimum version of gfortran that we can support because earlier versions do not provide an iso_c_binding module with all the capabilities that we need. And I am sure there are similar stories for really old versions of other Fortran compilers as well. Anyhow, to find out about potential Fortran problems before as opposed to after the release, please test the git master branch version of PLplot with your favourite Fortran compilers now, using, e.g., # Select Fortran compiler you are going to test with export FC=nagfor # Run comprehensive test of the Fortran-related (and C for comparison # purposes) parts of PLplot using that compiler. time (nice -19 scripts/comprehensive_test.sh --cmake_added_options "-DDEFAULT_NO_DEVICES=ON -DPLD_ps=ON -DDEFAULT_NO_BINDINGS=ON -DENABLE_ocaml=ON -DENABLE_f95=ON" --do_test_interactive no Send the report tarball (normally stored at ../comprehensive_test_disposable/comprehensive_test.tar.gz) to me. That will allow me summarize that result at <https://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/wiki/Testing_PLplot/#Fortran%20Testing%20Reports>. if that bash script finishes or advise you about how to constrain that comprehensive test with further options to allow the script to complete if you run into some issue with it. 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
