Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of the forthcoming 5.9.10 release

2013-09-23 Thread Andrew Ross
On Monday 23 Sep 2013 13:07:23 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > In addition, the overall ToDo list for this release contains the > on-going plcolorbar propagation effort by Jerry (Ada), Andrew (D), and > Hez (OCaml). > > N.B. I plan to call a halt to commits of this propagation work by the > end of Thursd

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of the forthcoming 5.9.10 release

2013-09-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-09-20 08:56-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Here is what I hope to get accomplished before this release. [...] > 2. Add paragraphs to advanced.xml describing what pllegend and > plcolorbar do. DONE as of revision 12517 [...] > 4. Update README.release to reflect the current status of pllegen

[Plplot-devel] [somewhat off-topic] Wine takes itself pretty seriously about trying to be exactly the same as Windows

2013-09-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
My PLplot testing effort with Wine has clearly benefited from the Wine developer philosophy that _any_ difference from Microsoft Windows behaviour is a Wine bug. But that philosophy does extend uncomfortably far. For example, see http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/zerowine-tryout/index.php?titl

[Plplot-devel] The forthcoming PLplot-5.9.10 release

2013-09-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
I plan to release PLplot-5.9.10 in 5 days time on September 28th to make the large amount of work we have put into PLplot for the last two years more readily available to our users. The PLplot core developers are still working on one last issue (propagating plcolorbar changes to the Ada, D, and OCa