Re: [Plplot-devel] Cross-compilation of PLplot

2022-02-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
evelopers. Cheers, Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Research affiliation with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the

Re: [Plplot-devel] The Debian PLplot fails

2021-10-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
test would allow us to use the present method for old sip versions and any new method you figure out for later sip versions. Cheers, Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Research affiliation with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. P

Re: [Plplot-devel] The Debian PLplot fails

2021-10-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
hen I would strongly lean toward removing our pyqt binding and example completely just to make our upstream life (and downstream packaging life) easier. Cheers, Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Research affiliation with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria,

Re: [Plplot-devel] The Debian PLplot fails

2021-10-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2021-10-29 13:44-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...]I assume that our Qt developer, António Tomé, will eventually be able to find a way to build our pyqt5 bindings against sip 6.3.1, but that will likely take a while since sip is not very good (in my experience) at documenting what their churn

Re: [Plplot-devel] The Debian PLplot fails

2021-10-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
simply use (in this case) -DENABLE_pyqt5=OFF, and it should build and run without issues. Cheers, Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Research affiliation with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. Programming affiliations with the FreeEO

Re: [Plplot-devel] plplot qt driver deprecated functions

2021-08-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
th Qt5 and Qt6 with our build system. Cheers, Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Research affiliation with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar int

Re: [Plplot-devel] plplot qt driver deprecated functions

2021-08-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
e the stdout and stderr output from cmake and make using cmake >& cmake.out # Only if cmake works make VERBOSE=1 test_all_qt >& test_all_qt.out and send those *.out files to me. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Research affiliation with the Department of Physics and As

[Plplot-devel] Welcome to António as our newest core PLplot developer!

2021-07-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ots. However, I also encourage António to work on more than just the Qt-related components of PLplot if he spots anything else he would like to improve. Welcome, António! Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Research affiliation with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of V

Re: [Plplot-devel] plplot qt driver deprecated functions

2021-07-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
rary. also going to try to see how i can force plplot to build with qt6 and then one will know if this small patch is enough to deal with the next major version of the qt, Good luck implementing these important Qt6-ready goals for PLplot. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Res

Re: [Plplot-devel] What are the development priorities for the csironn library?

2021-07-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2021-07-04 01:16-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...* It "would be nice"] for libcsironn to change its dependence on libqhull to a dependence on libqhull_r. DONE (thanks mostly to Stefan). See <https://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/plplot/ci/b6023bf465e9b024d3b161ba52ef01a1aff3e9

Re: [Plplot-devel] What are the development priorities for the csironn library? (was Bug#990397: depends on deprecated qhull library)

2021-07-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
such quick fixes for this issue, Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Research affiliation with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar inte

Re: [Plplot-devel] What are the development priorities for the csironn library? (was Bug#990397: depends on deprecated qhull library)

2021-07-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
iscussed on this thread! Anyhow, thanks for drawing this patch to my attention, and I hope I have time to take a close look at in in the coming week or so. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Research affiliation with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Vict

[Plplot-devel] What are the development priorities for the csironn library? (was Bug#990397: depends on deprecated qhull library)

2021-07-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
create a patch to implement any of those topics (or any other libcsironn development topic that interested you), I would be happy to comprehensively test that patch in a timely manner and (assuming that was a success) push that commit to make sure your work gets into the next release of PLplot. Be

Re: [Plplot-devel] plplot qt driver deprecated functions

2021-06-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
st_memqt_example, and test_c_qtwidget targets with no configuration, build, run-time, or GUI issues. Because our two Qt5 platforms are so different it is essential to test on both platforms. So I plan to do these tests also and append my own "Tested by:" stanza to yours as follows (once those

Re: [Plplot-devel] Port to SIP5?

2020-12-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2020-12-03 19:28+0300 Dmitry Shachnev wrote: H Alan! On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 01:34:50PM -0800, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Hi Dmitry: From the PLplot bug discussion above, it appears Rafael was unable to modify PLplot to use sip5 with two different methods which are (1) to generalize our present

Re: [Plplot-devel] Port to SIP5?

2020-12-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
t that upstream sip (riverbankcomputing) has continued to support this year via minor feature and bug-fix releases, and it appears that Debian also has no immediate plans to abandon sip4. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Research affiliation with the Department of Physics and Ast

Re: [Plplot-devel] Set the libplplotada_SOVERSION on the CMake command line

2020-11-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
recent push of commit 28ffa1e84. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Research affiliation with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors

Re: [Plplot-devel] Set the libplplotada_SOVERSION on the CMake command line

2020-11-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
both. @both: Best wishes, Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Research affiliation with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freee

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fix for Debian Sid sip file find problem

2020-10-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
correctly on all architectures: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=plplot Thanks, Rafael, for that test of my commit on Debian Sid, and the good news concerning those results. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Research affiliation with the Department of Physics and

[Plplot-devel] Fix for Debian Sid sip file find problem

2020-10-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
t 61e41ac6a solves Debian bug 971215. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Research affiliation with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (fre

Re: [Plplot-devel] One development topic left for memqt_example [there appear to be two possible solutions to choose from!]

2020-07-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 2:35 AM Alan W. Irwin wrote: Hi António: [...] I have just found <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51010194/qt-5-10-semi-transparent-background-on-qmainwindow-using-stylesheet> . Could you please take a careful look at this reference which mentions two po

Re: [Plplot-devel] FindLua

2020-07-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
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[Plplot-devel] One development topic left for memqt_example

2020-07-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ow to do this? Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Research affiliation with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timee

Re: [Plplot-devel] #include needed in qt.h by newer qt versions

2020-06-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Best wishes, Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Research affiliation with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time

Re: [Plplot-devel] plplot fails to build with ocaml 1.08

2020-05-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
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Re: [Plplot-devel] plplot fails to build with ocaml 1.08

2020-05-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
lot to do with PLplot (except as a platform that exposes the issue). So good luck solving it, and let me know how you progress. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Research affiliation with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. Pro

Re: [Plplot-devel] plplot fails to build with ocaml 1.08

2020-05-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ed this bug in a later pre-release version. But if changing the Fedora package to the latest pre-release version does not fix the current issue, then I would recommend you contact Xavier Leroy about this issue to see if he can fix it before he releases 1.0.8. Good luck, and let me know how it goes.

[Plplot-devel] Expanding the PLplot contract test to more platforms

2020-05-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
the way I have described above for any platform for PLplot that interests you, I would be happy to help you with any further questions you may have. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Research affiliation with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Can

Re: [Plplot-devel] ndiff software commit

2020-03-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
s fixing some day. But just not today. :-) Alan __ Alan W. Irwin 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.org); th

Re: [Plplot-devel] D language support topic

2019-10-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ially later). And once that build is done, I am, of course, interested in your comprehensive test results for the (substantially updated) test_d project. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar inte

Re: [Plplot-devel]   D language support topic (success for test_d on Darwin!)

2019-09-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2019-09-24 17:24-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: But the other issue (where our various thread library needs are met by the -pthread *compiler* option used for linking which neither dmd nor ldc2 understands) has proved much more difficult to solve (even though it is extremely easy to solve the

Re: [Plplot-devel]   D language support topic (success for test_d on Darwin!)

2019-09-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2019-09-15 15:35-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: Hi Takeshi: [...] I would appreciate you testing that result [plplot-5.15.0-34-g6b47c717e] for the test_d project (to make sure my further one-line change I committed beyond what you have tested already did not screw anything up) and also (if

Re: [Plplot-devel] Issue with ocaml in tree tests

2019-09-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
t described (using "git describe master") as plplot-5.15.0-37-g6b215267e. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PL

Re: [Plplot-devel]   D language support topic (success for test_d on Darwin!)

2019-09-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
mprehensive test which when it is a success will demonstrate improved D language support for both the upstream version of PLplot that I have been helping to maintain and ultimately the MacPorts port of PLplot that you have been maintaining. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming

Re: [Plplot-devel] Patch set for postscript driver

2019-09-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
tionally fix the above formatting issues. And we can take it from there. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientif

Re: [Plplot-devel] Which cmake do I need to modify?

2019-09-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
mplete bug report with all the details so that I can help you find what the problem is. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.ne

Re: [Plplot-devel] test-drv-info

2019-09-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
es above, please go ahead and commit that change. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin 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 pack

Re: [Plplot-devel] Font issues for -dev plm and plrender

2019-09-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2019-09-11 21:41-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: On Sep 11, 2019, at 9:30 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Hi Jim: My understanding is plbuf supports unicode-aware system fonts. But my recent test (for details of the test, see the commit message for the commit git-decribed as plplot-5.15.0-31

[Plplot-devel] Font issues for -dev plm and plrender

2019-09-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
plrender (which I presume reads that information) is still using Hershey fonts! Could you please figure out a fix for this issue? Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the

Re: [Plplot-devel] Tentative plan for removing our support of Qt4

2019-09-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2019-09-07 16:46+0930 Jonathan Woithe wrote: Hi Alan On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 01:36:30PM -0700, Alan W. Irwin wrote: As someone here with a large familiarity with Qt, I would appreciate you letting me know if you forsee any trouble with this overall plan to remove our Qt4 support. And

Re: [Plplot-devel] Tentative plan for removing our support of Qt4

2019-09-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
E_QT5=OFF) obviously will no longer be a concern after this change. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scien

Re: [Plplot-devel] Tentative plan for removing our support of Qt4

2019-09-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2019-09-02 13:36-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: Hi António: Your fix of the serious Qt5 font configuration bug for PLplot made our Qt5 results in PLplot-5.15.0 essentially as good as our Qt4 results for the first time ever. So ever since that release it has been on my mind to greatly reduce the

[Plplot-devel] Tentative plan for removing our support of Qt4

2019-09-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
PLplot developers here are also encouraged. I will likely implement the 5.16.0 part of the above plan late this week if there are no strong disagreements expressed here in the next several days. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of

Re: [Plplot-devel] D language support topic

2019-09-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
with dmd. The results of those tests should help me to get our CMake D language support working correctly for the Windows-dmd case for both test_d and PLplot. Alan -Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin Sent: 01 September 2019 01:40 To: Takeshi Enomoto ; Arjen Markus ; PLplot development

Re: [Plplot-devel] D language support topic

2019-08-31 Thread Alan W. Irwin
esting our new D language support on MSYS2 with that compiler. As in Takeshi's case I suggest you start with the test_d project for an extremely recent version of CMake from its git master branch that you have built yourself. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Programming affili

Re: [Plplot-devel] D language support topic

2019-08-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ast status report for this topic, I am much closer to reaching the goal that comprehensive testing for both test_d and PLplot itself is working correctly on Debian Buster for all three D compilers. More later Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with t

Re: [Plplot-devel] D language support topic

2019-08-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2019-08-14 18:29-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: So replacing our ancient fork of CMakeD with a modern fork of cmake-d currently looks like the proper way forward. However, before implementing that I need to do more comparisons between the two CMake D language support projects for dmd, and

[Plplot-devel] D language support topic

2019-08-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
our ancient fork of CMakeD) using cmake-d. More later. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin 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 softwa

[Plplot-devel] Plans for a last Python2 versus Python3 fix, Python2 deprecation by 5.16.0 and removal by 5.17.0

2019-08-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
o I think, basically the syntax for raise has changed between 2.x and 3.x and for whatever reason, on my system the script is being executed using 3.x Any fix suggestions? I don't really know python at all. Phil On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 at 19:49, Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2019-07-31 12:44+0100

[Plplot-devel] What more steps do you need to do to finish up your part of the PLplot error handling topic?

2019-08-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
above. So please let me know what your PLplot priorities are so I have some idea what to expect from you by the time 5.16.0 is released (which should ideally occur before December 1st, i.e., we are already roughly one third of the way through the current release cycle). Alan _______

Re: [Plplot-devel] uncrustify msys2

2019-07-31 Thread Alan W. Irwin
plot_config.h.in should have \r\n line endings.) So I would only look at this potential line ending issue (by dumping out each raw byte of the above line) only as a last resort (i.e., only if the line that is causing this error compiles with no issues). Alan __ Alan W. Ir

Re: [Plplot-devel] Preliminary good PLplot results with Brad King's fork of Ninja

2019-07-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
change so you are guaranteed to start # with a completely fresh source tree: git checkout -- src/lexer.cc Which works around a ninja source-tree contamination bug that needs fixing. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implemen

[Plplot-devel] Preliminary good PLplot results with Brad King's fork of Ninja

2019-07-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
I haven't tried upstream ninja, but since Brad's fork of that software is designed to fix fortran issues, then I assume everything that worked above except the fortran component should work well if one of you prefers to try the upstream version of ninja. Alan __ Alan W.

Re: [Plplot-devel] uncrustify msys2

2019-07-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2019-07-25 16:09-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: [ C]ompletely finishing this project will take much longer than expected because of [...] complications with styling the swig directive (*.i) files that occur in bindings/ where is one of java, python, lua, or octave [] Those

Re: [Plplot-devel] uncrustify msys2

2019-07-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2019-07-25 18:30-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: For those interested in building uncrustify 0.69.0 from the git tag (which should be all developers here who would like to run the bash script scripts/style_source.sh to style their source-code updates before committing those changes), I have

Re: [Plplot-devel] uncrustify msys2

2019-07-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
clone command that needs to be run just once (in the same directory where you have placed this script) to get access to the git version of the uncrustify source code *before the first time* you run the script. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS

Re: [Plplot-devel] uncrustify msys2

2019-07-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2019-07-24 01:40-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...]so my current ETA for the above proposed commit is late tomorrow (Wednesday) or so. Sorry, but completely finishing this project will take much longer than expected because of a complication with align_number_left (which I have dealt with

Re: [Plplot-devel] uncrustify msys2

2019-07-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
bugs) between uncrustify 0.60 and 0.69.0. Note that visual sampling of these changes didn't reveal any obvious style issues, and these changes also passed the test below: Tested by Alan W. Irwin on Linux (Debian Buster) by building the test_noninteractive target in the

Re: [Plplot-devel] CMake problem with hyphen in path

2019-07-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
han Windows only. If you agree that wiki "no-space in external library prefixes" warning would be useful as well, would you take responsibility for updating the most fundamental PLplot build page in our wiki (whatever that is) to that effect? Alan __ Alan W. Irw

Re: [Plplot-devel] CMake problem with hyphen in path

2019-07-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
are. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin 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.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); th

[Plplot-devel] CMake problem with hyphen in path

2019-07-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Oops, I sent this to the wrong list so I am correcting that now. On 2019-07-12 05:05-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: I am virtually positive pkg-config has a way (likely with quotes) to properly distinguish between these two cases, but I am going to have to find what that is and adjust the above

Re: [Plplot-devel] Possible Windows development agendas for the next 6 months

2019-06-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
nt to just stick with pure MSYS2 instead. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin 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 pa

Re: [Plplot-devel] [EXTERNAL] Re: Patch for PLPLOT

2019-06-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
please contact me again directly (or ideally on the plplot-devel mailing list for the reason given above). Best wishes, Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephem

Re: [Plplot-devel] Possible Windows development agendas for the next 6 months

2019-06-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2019-06-12 12:27-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2019-06-11 17:29-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: I think the earliest version of windows we should support is win7. Keeping XP support will be a challenge. According to <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP>, XP was introduced in 2001, Mic

Re: [Plplot-devel] Possible Windows development agendas for the next 6 months

2019-06-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
as of a few months ago. So yes, I am fine with us dropping XP support as well. @Jim: I am glad to hear you think this agenda is doable for you during this release cycle (especially when not worrying about XP support). Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with

[Plplot-devel] Possible Windows development agendas for the next 6 months

2019-06-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ith MinGW/MSYS (as opposed to the modern alternative to that ancient platform, MinGW-w64/MSYS2). But I do hope to stir up some discussion from you three PLplot developers with access to Windows. So I am looking forward to your individual replies to my remarks above. Alan __

[Plplot-devel] My recent PLplot support-request triage

2019-06-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ining ones I have classified as pending since either the discussion of the support topic appears to be over, or we are waiting for more feedback from the originator of the support request. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state imple

[Plplot-devel] plplot-5.15.0 has been released

2019-06-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
new release cycle! Alan __ Alan W. Irwin 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

[Plplot-devel] Current status of the PLplot-5.15.0 release process

2019-05-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
be largely mechanical, and you should be able to follow those on git as I do them. Therefore, I hope to release PLplot-5.15.0 in another day or two without further status reports like this one concerning how close I am to reaching that goal! :-) Alan __ Alan W. Irwin

[Plplot-devel] Current status of the PLplot-5.15.0 release process

2019-05-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
week. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin 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

Re: [Plplot-devel] Testing of the next PLplot release

2019-05-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
llow up by releasing 5.15.0 as quickly as possible this week. My thanks again for your testing help. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeep

Re: [Plplot-devel] Testing of the next PLplot release

2019-05-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
a release-critical issue. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin 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 (

Re: [Plplot-devel] Testing of the next PLplot release

2019-05-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ure out how to convince CMake to link a static PLplot against the static libraries provided by the mingw repo. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides projec

Re: [Plplot-devel] Testing of the next PLplot release

2019-05-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Arjen Markus wrote: Hi Alan, Phil, I made some progress - see the attached tarball. -Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin Sent: 16 May 2019 12:20 To: Arjen Markus Cc: 'Phil Rosenberg' Subject: RE: Testing of the next PLplot release That leaves just the following issues:

[Plplot-devel] git blog

2019-05-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
part of the actual commit id. Use git help describe to see more details about this way of describing commits. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides

Re: [Plplot-devel] swig 4.0.0 issues

2019-05-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
fixed. See commit plplot-5.14.0-38-g6b00b9717. No promises at this stage, but I am hoping to stick to a 6-month release cycle, i.e., I hope to release plplot-5.15.0 (with this important fix, the Qt5 important font fix, and several others) within a month or so. Alan __ A

[Plplot-devel] A complete rewrite of the build system INSTALL_RPATH configuration logic has now been finished

2019-02-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ations of PLplot dependencies. But if the run-time loader errors out by saying it cannot find a library, the first thing you should try is -DUSE_RPATH=ON (if you were not using that default already) and the second thing you should try if this trouble occurs for the shared build case is -DNON_TRANSITIVE

[Plplot-devel] CMake minimum version bump and removing cmake/modules/FindwxWidgets.cmake

2019-02-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2019-01-31 13:01-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...] So yes, I agree that it is time for us to drop our own version, and if we find the above patch is necessary on any Windows platform of interest to us we can always submit that change for inclusion into the upstream version. Meanwhile, the

Re: [Plplot-devel] Help needed for plplot runtime tests

2019-02-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ht be interested in both your questions and my answers so I prefer you keep this on this mailing list.) On 02.02.19 10:50, Alan W. Irwin wrote: I haven't yet made the upstream fix to allow users who have installed only a subset of the PLplot binary packages to test the installed examples.  But t

Re: [Plplot-devel] Help needed for plplot runtime tests

2019-02-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-12-18 13:16-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...] But meanwhile, I hope you are both able to test your binary packages for PLplot and your package containing the installed examples for plplot-5.14.0-10-g66d68d93e in the above way subject to the temporary "all installed" constraint.

[Plplot-devel] findwxwidgets.cmake module

2019-01-31 Thread Alan W. Irwin
e policy that has been established for modern CMake versions. So in general every such bump makes our build system more robust and easier to maintain (e.g., it allows us to drop our own version of the wxwidgets find module). Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations

Re: [Plplot-devel] qt_example memory management issues (SOLVED!)

2019-01-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
time/inclination to fix this according to the web prescription I have documented, I do plan to do it myself after a substantial break to work on PLplot components that are a lot easier for me! Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-

Re: [Plplot-devel] Testing of latest qt pushes requested

2019-01-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-12-31 16:05- António Rodrigues Tomé wrote: p.s I will have a look at your commit and test it on my own applications Hi António: Just to finish off this topic, was that test a success? Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS

Re: [Plplot-devel] qt_example memory management issues

2019-01-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-12-31 11:44-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2018-12-31 11:28-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...] by the following temporary changes to qt_example: argc = 1; QApplication a( argc, argv ); // Must construct an instance of PlotWindow after QApplication. PlotWindow * win = new

Re: [Plplot-devel] qt_example memory management issues

2018-12-31 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-12-31 11:28-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...] by the following temporary changes to qt_example: argc = 1; QApplication a( argc, argv ); // Must construct an instance of PlotWindow after QApplication. PlotWindow * win = new PlotWindow( Argc, Argv ); // Clean up Argv now

[Plplot-devel] qt_example memory management issues

2018-12-31 Thread Alan W. Irwin
pe will help me to eventually reach that goal. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin 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 (p

[Plplot-devel] Testing of latest qt pushes requested

2018-12-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
if I still cannot find such a simple fix (as happened during the 5.14.0 release because I am still in the early stages of learning C++ and Qt), I will leave that (more complex?) fix to you in a couple of months. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the

Re: [Plplot-devel] qt_example intermittent segfaults on exit

2018-12-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
look forward to whatever solution you come up with then. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin 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

Re: [Plplot-devel] Dropping the closeQtapp call

2018-12-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-12-29 11:56- António Rodrigues Tomé wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 11:20 AM Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2018-12-29 09:17- António Rodrigues Tomé wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 2:28 AM Alan W. Irwin < alan.w.irwin1...@gmail.com> I'm puzzled my changes do not in any

Re: [Plplot-devel] qt_example intermittent segfaults on exit

2018-12-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
you have time for this. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin 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

[Plplot-devel] qt_example intermittent segfaults on exit

2018-12-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ith win, then that might solve the intermittent segfault on exit issue shown by qt_example. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeeph

[Plplot-devel] Dropping the closeQtapp call

2018-12-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-12-29 09:17- António Rodrigues Tomé wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 2:28 AM Alan W. Irwin I'm puzzled my changes do not in any way affect the extqt case. the ext-qt also should never call closeQtapp() but in fact it calls it but it is a flaw in code that does do no

Re: [Plplot-devel] Change to appCounter logic within qt.cpp

2018-12-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi António: I am still slowing learning about both Qt and C++ so I was happy to hear from you my analysis of the appCounter logic was correct. I plan to push your commit later today. __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state

[Plplot-devel] Change to appCounter logic within qt.cpp

2018-12-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
rect, but you still do not share my concerns about the robustness of the code in its present state (i.e., with your change), then I will add information to your commit message based on the above analysis and go ahead and push your change. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Programming affi

Re: [Plplot-devel] Qt5 support, strange driver output

2018-12-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
h better long-term choice. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin 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 (unifo

Re: [Plplot-devel] Qt5 support, strange driver output

2018-12-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Tested by: António R. Tomé on Linux (openSUSE leap 15.0) by ??? Tested by: Alan W. Irwin on Linux (Debian Testing) by building the x30c and qt targets and running valgrind examples/c/x30c -dev pngqt -o test3_qt.png -fam -bg 00F_0.3 The valgrind report showed "ERROR SUMMARY

Re: [Plplot-devel] Qt5 support, strange driver output

2018-12-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
shed, please state whatever tests you ran (in sufficient detail that I could replicate those for myself) so I can append that information to the "Tested by:" paragraph for you. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state imp

Re: [Plplot-devel] Qt5 support, strange driver output

2018-12-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
e equivalent result you get there for the exact experiment above? Also, please let me know what application you use (assuming it is not "display") to look at your own test2_qt.png.1 file generated as above. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state

Re: [Plplot-devel] Qt5 support, strange driver output

2018-12-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-12-26 13:00-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...] Here are two alternative suggestions: "Fix background transparency in the raster qt Drivers" or "Fix transparency in the raster qt Drivers" Let me know which of these you prefer. P.S. That should have been "

Re: [Plplot-devel] Qt5 support, strange driver output

2018-12-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
an in the unfixed version there was no background fill at all for these devices so Qt was falling back to some opaque background? I haven't tested this commit yet, but once I do that I plan to add the following "Tested by" paragraph. Tested by: Alan W. Irwin on Linux (Debian Tes

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