[Plplot-devel] git blog

2018-12-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
answers your question above with more background than I have given. 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

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

2018-12-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
answers your question above with more background than I have given. 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

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

2018-12-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
from the PLplot development perspective is documented in README.developers, but if you don't understand something there, don't hesitate to ask your further git questions here. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation

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

2018-12-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
instead, I suggest you follow the "git format-patch" cookbook in README.developers in order to do that. And don't hesitate to ask here if you have any trouble following that specific procedure or any other git advice we give there. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Progra

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

2018-12-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-11-15 01:10-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...] I need to implement the following two upstream upgrades: 1. I need to factor the exported target files, e.g., the two export_plplot* files mentioned above. Such factoring had already been highly recommended to me by CMake gurus, and I think

Re: [Plplot-devel] git workflow plans for the proposed bug-fix plplot-5.14.1 release

2018-12-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
haven't managed to do that recently, but I am planning on having a much better ordinary release outcome in the latter part of the first half of 2019. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors

[Plplot-devel] git workflow plans for the proposed bug-fix plplot-5.14.1 release

2018-12-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ld violate our (enforced) rebase work flow rule that there can be no merge commits that cannot be fast-forwarded. Again, comments on this plan from the git gurus here will be most welcome. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state

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

2018-12-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ut the git process I should use to create a bug-fix release (such as the proposed 5.14.1) in my next post. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerid

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

2018-12-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
u have a strong basis for a bug report to opensuse since setStyleHint appears not to be working on that platform. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project

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

2018-12-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
lication) extraordinarily helpful in figuring out which of the system fonts that fontconfig will select for *any* unicode glyph. I highly recommend that you install that package and use it since it should be able to quickly find out independent of PLplot if fontconfig is working properly on you

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

2018-12-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
me know how it goes. 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 (u

Re: [Plplot-devel] plplot-5.14.0 has been released

2018-12-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-12-12 16:33+0100 Ole Streicher wrote: Hi Alan, "Alan W. Irwin" writes: A comprehensive test and some additional specific tests of my fix for the release critical bug went well, and as a result I have now released 5.14.0. See my forthcoming post to plplot-general for t

[Plplot-devel] plplot-5.14.0 has been released

2018-12-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
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Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.14.0 release status

2018-12-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-12-10 19:04-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: Hi Phil: This is mostly addressed to you because it turns out one of your commits is causing release-critical trouble with the plsori call in example 3 as well as any attempt to use a non-zero -ori option. [...] I used the commands make -j16

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.14.0 release status

2018-12-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ickly, I will likely just go ahead and reverse your commit tomorrow (Tuesday) and comprehensively test that change in anticipation of making the release later tomorrow. More later. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implem

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

2018-12-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
the output from the cmake command you used *for the core build*, and (iii) the actual original and sed-modified export files. I am virtually positive that information will be sufficient for me to figure out what is wrong. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with t

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.14.0 release status

2018-12-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
for 5.14.0. 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 software package (plplot.sf.net

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.14.0 release status

2018-12-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-12-01 18:35-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: The current status of the PLplot-5.14.0 release process is as follows: The PLplot development freeze that started on October 27th contines, i.e., do not push any topics other than documentation updates or well-tested bug fixes. As part

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.14.0 release status

2018-12-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
tests are correct? My next planned step is to update that table again with my own recent comprehensive test reports, and then continue with the remaining parts of README.Release_Manager_Cookbook to finish the 5.14.0 release. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affili

Re: [Plplot-devel] Rewrite of our Testing_PLplot wiki entry and new method of updating our wiki pages

2018-11-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ut otherwise do everything else in the paragraph above (just like I did for Home) to update wiki pages that are important to you. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemeride

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

2018-11-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
olve it but another error is encountered, please use a clean start (i.e., an initially empty build tree), and send me the the complete cmake output and also the complete results of make VERBOSE=1 test_noninteractive >& test_noninteractive.out (i.e., without any parallel build options).

[Plplot-devel] git blog

2018-11-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
s the small tweaks I performed on those long lines for commit 7bedc70ad0. I am happy we are using git because I keep finding such cool functionality (as above). :-) Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation f

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

2018-11-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-11-27 13:44+0100 Ole Streicher wrote: Hi Alan, thanks for the help so far! Hi Ole: You are welcome. On 26.11.18 19:52, Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2018-11-26 16:46+0100 Ole Streicher wrote: It appears that CMake hard codes the filename on export.  For example, software@merlin> g

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.14.0 release status

2018-11-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
something of a distraction, I have developed some temporary workarounds for the issue that should allow me to get through the above steps without too many more delays. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation

[Plplot-devel] Rewrite of our Testing_PLplot wiki entry and new method of updating our wiki pages

2018-11-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ctly from that GUI editor (not the SF page that links to that editor!) to the appropriate file in doc/wiki_source in our source tree and git commit that revised result. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for

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

2018-11-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
d shared objects (dll's) in that file. To solve this I suggest you simply use a sed script to add the architecture triple expected by Debian for the relevant filenames in the above file. Good luck with that suggested change and let me know how it goes. Alan ______ Ala

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

2018-11-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-11-24 19:06-0700 Orion Poplawski wrote: On 11/24/18 11:55 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Hi Orion: This thread has previously been directed mostly at Ole, but I am including you now because I think it will interest you.  It concerns the problems (one of them upstream which I plan to fix

[Plplot-devel] Help needed for plplot runtime tests

2018-11-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ebian packages, but I think some attention to the details of PLplot installation locations will solve this issue. And similarly in your case if those tests fail for Fedora. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for ste

Re: [Plplot-devel] FW: Exponential labels - custom position

2018-11-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
keep me informed of your progress as well. 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

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

2018-11-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-11-23 08:28+0100 Ole Streicher wrote: [...] It is the cmake command. When I start with an empty dir, and then do $ cmake /usr/share/doc/plplot-doc/examples/ I get the following output: 8< -- The C compiler

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

2018-11-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-11-22 20:54+0100 Ole Streicher wrote: Hi Alan, back from the US (ADASS), I found an hour to look further into the CI tests problem: "Alan W. Irwin" writes: On 2018-11-13 18:23+0100 Ole Streicher wrote: Upstream PLplot installs all examples configured in the core build in

Re: [Plplot-devel] FW: Exponential labels - custom position

2018-11-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
out the 5.14.0 release to discuss these changes with you, but we are in deep freeze now (i.e., it is obviously much too late in the present release cycle to get these or virtually any other code change into that release). But once you provide a good simple test example to make sure all is we

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.14.0 release status

2018-11-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
lplot-5.14.0 release process is going with status reports like this one every week or so. 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.

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

2018-11-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-11-13 18:23+0100 Ole Streicher wrote: Hi Alan, On 11.11.18 03:17, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Everything you have done above should work fine for building and testing the installed examples using the CMake-based build system for those examples. My problem is that I have actually split

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

2018-11-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
t (b) whether my guess is correct that the incompleteness of the rpm manifest is the issue. Best wishes, Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (tim

[Plplot-devel] 5.14.0 release status

2018-11-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
release-related tasks (documented in README.Release_Manager_Cookbook) that I still need to do to complete this release. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time

Re: [Plplot-devel] Finalized plans for 5.14.0 freeze date, testing period, and release

2018-10-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
long the release process is going to take me, but conceivably we might have a release of PLplot-5.14.0 as early as tomorrow night. However, more realistically it is likely going to be several days later than that. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations

Re: [Plplot-devel] Finalized plans for 5.14.0 freeze date, testing period, and release

2018-10-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-10-03 10:18-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2018-09-23 18:56-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: I continue have a large list of different topics I would like to work on for PLplot, but, on the other hand, comprehensive tests are looking good (at least on Debian Buster) right now, and it has been

[Plplot-devel] Finalized plans for 5.14.0 freeze date, testing period, and release

2018-10-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-09-23 18:56-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: I continue have a large list of different topics I would like to work on for PLplot, but, on the other hand, comprehensive tests are looking good (at least on Debian Buster) right now, and it has been much too long since our last release (mostly

Re: [Plplot-devel] How to use plplot in my own project?

2018-09-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
can do this with the -DCMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH or -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX Exactly. 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

Re: [Plplot-devel] How to use plplot in my own project?

2018-09-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
n is a little tricky so although it is on my ToDo list now, I am going to put it off until after the 5.14.0 release that is coming soon. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net);

Re: [Plplot-devel] Is there some important reason for using the -single-module linker option on modern Mac OS X?

2018-09-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-03-22 19:12-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: To those here with knowledge of Mac OS X linking: According to <http://www.manpages.info/macosx/ld.1.html> there exists the following ld options: " -single_module When building a dynamic library build the library so that it contai

[Plplot-devel] Tentative plans for 5.14.0 freeze date, testing period, and release

2018-09-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
proposed freeze date of October 27th gets transformed into a release date that is roughly in mid November. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides proje

Re: [Plplot-devel] Cannot compile plplot using VS 2017

2018-09-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
for Linux (i.e., building the test_c_wxwidgets and test_wxPLplotDemo targets caused no obvious build or run-time issues). Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time

Re: [Plplot-devel] Plplot now working well with Debian Buster + release timing

2018-09-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
this severe issue with Lua-5.3.3. 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

Re: [Plplot-devel] Cannot compile plplot using VS 2017

2018-09-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
wxwidgets issues. Therefore, I cannot replicate your issue on Linux so someone with access to recent Windows platforms will have to attempt that instead. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar

Re: [Plplot-devel] Plplot now working well with Debian Buster + release timing

2018-09-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-09-20 21:09-0600 Orion Poplawski wrote: On 09/20/2018 12:22 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2018-09-19 22:06-0600 Orion Poplawski wrote: On 09/15/2018 01:49 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: To Orion and Ole: Commit a730ebe34 has removed the last of the "new software" issues I have

Re: [Plplot-devel] Plplot now working well with Debian Buster + release timing

2018-09-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-09-19 22:06-0600 Orion Poplawski wrote: On 09/15/2018 01:49 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: To Orion and Ole: Commit a730ebe34 has removed the last of the "new software" issues I have identified with Debian Testing = Buster. @Orion: I encourage you to try that commit on Fedora to

[Plplot-devel] Plplot now working well with Debian Buster + release timing

2018-09-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
this makes the ETA of our next PLplot release still somewhat uncertain, but I am still hoping to get it done this year (before Christmas season) rather than early next year. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation f

Re: [Plplot-devel] Intermittent Ada example build failures are now back again (SOLVED by gnat-8)

2018-09-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-09-14 12:19- Arjen Markus wrote: Hi Alan, -Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:alan.w.irwin1...@gmail.com] To Jerry and Arjen: On Sunday (just before commit 7ec926fae) I discovered that my installs of gdc-7 and gnat-7 were probably not good choices because

Re: [Plplot-devel] Intermittent Ada example build failures are now back again (SOLVED by gnat-8)

2018-09-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-07-16 10:10-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2018-06-09 13:30-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2018-04-15 11:15-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: Hi Jerry: [...] So once this Ada build issue appeared again for me yesterday after all those previous successful hardware checks, I did a google search

[Plplot-devel] Recent bump of CMake minimum version

2018-09-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ake version 3.6.2 was released. So perhaps the way to resolve this issue is to volunteer on the Cygwin list to maintain that Cygwin CMake package yourself? Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interi

[Plplot-devel] Installed version of PLplot working again!

2018-08-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ier release than that sort of time scale, I would certainly be willing to consider that possibility by dropping some of the topics I want to work on before the release. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementatio

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of our octave binding and examples for version 4.4.0 of octave

2018-08-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ctave package running for this platform as I have outlined above. 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 plott

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of our octave binding and examples for version 4.4.0 of octave

2018-08-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
hub.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-octave-hg>) are still of some use to you. 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

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of our octave binding and examples for version 4.4.0 of octave

2018-08-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-07-31 21:10-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: To Orion and Arjen: As of <https://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/plplot/ci/d7310aa9864ce1676177f39323c9daf593ae0765/> our octave binding and all examples/octave/x??c.m examples give a perfect PostScript difference report for Octave 4.4.0 for

[Plplot-devel] Status of our octave binding and examples for version 4.4.0 of octave

2018-07-31 Thread Alan W. Irwin
about those warnings from long ago. :-) 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] rgb colourscale interpolation

2018-07-31 Thread Alan W. Irwin
of our users who actually use that struct in their code, you should expand that suggested single sentence in 1.10 to warn users of this specific change to PLControlPt. I look forward to your commit with the suggested changes in README.release. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Programming

Re: [Plplot-devel] Intermittent Ada example build failures are now back again

2018-07-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-06-09 13:30-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2018-04-15 11:15-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: Hi Jerry: [...] So once this Ada build issue appeared again for me yesterday after all those previous successful hardware checks, I did a google search for the terms (without the quotes) "gna

[Plplot-devel] Long-standing '\0' issue fixed + development news

2018-07-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
was pursuing before the advent of this new computer interrupted everything in a good way. 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

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of examples/c/extXdrawable_demo.c

2018-06-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-06-22 08:56+0930 Jonathan Woithe wrote: Hi Alan On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 04:51:04PM -0700, Alan W. Irwin wrote: As far as I can tell from git log --follow examples/c/extXdrawable_demo.c Jonathan Woithe implemented that example a decade ago ... I did. The purpose of the example

[Plplot-devel] Status of examples/c/extXdrawable_demo.c

2018-06-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
a lot more extensive than mine. 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 (plp

[Plplot-devel] PLplot on Debian Buster looking fairly good so far

2018-06-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
__ 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

Re: [Plplot-devel] Intermittent Ada example build failures are now gone again!

2018-06-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-04-15 11:15-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: Hi Jerry: [...] So once this Ada build issue appeared again for me yesterday after all those previous successful hardware checks, I did a google search for the terms (without the quotes) "gnatmake intermittent build error" and fo

Re: [Plplot-devel] Intermittent Ada example build failures are now gone again!

2018-04-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Ada build issues for me. Therefore, I plan to use the -DENABLE_ada=OFF option for my further testing until I can get access to a later version of the Ada build tools myself, and I suggest others who currently don't have access to Ada build tools with bug 65451 fixed should do the same. Alan ___

[Plplot-devel] Intermittent Ada example build failures are now gone again!

2018-04-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ou who run into issues with gnatmake. 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

[Plplot-devel] Is there some important reason for using the -single-module linker option on modern Mac OS X?

2018-03-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Mac OS X. 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 Eph

[Plplot-devel] Namespaced ALIAS library targets which are the first step in planned CMake best-practice upgrades

2018-03-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
is is going to be my build-system bible for quite some time to come! 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

[Plplot-devel] -h command-line issue on Cygwin

2018-01-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
uot;). Let me know whether one or the other of those two measures fixes the above -h issue. By the way, I highly recommend "less" as a much better pager than "more". So the developers of "less" used some self-deprecating humor when they picked the name of thei

Re: [Plplot-devel] Command-line parsing improvements for both C and Fortran

2018-01-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
eopts work with modern versions of gfortran and ifort, I will encourage others with access to other Fortran compilers to try this test as well. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.ph

Re: [Plplot-devel] Command-line parsing improvements for both C and Fortran

2018-01-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
t I checked before examples/c/x01c -dev psc -o test.psc I have no idea why the former form does not work while the latter form works perfectly in all regards, but I will definitely look into this weird difference between these two different parsing results. Alan ______ Alan W

Re: [Plplot-devel] Command-line parsing improvements for both C and Fortran

2018-01-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-01-03 13:28- Arjen Markus wrote: -Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] This commit completes my parsing API changes in bindings/fortran/*.f90 and my changes to examples/fortran/x01f.f90 to test all of these parsing API's. I would

Re: [Plplot-devel] Command-line parsing improvements for both C and Fortran

2018-01-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-12-27 14:26-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: Hi Arjen: I have done some further investigation and it appears that even today allocatable character arrays are problematic to a certain extent for Fortran compilers. For example, see <https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80945>.

[Plplot-devel] qhull import library and corresponding dll missing for MinGW-w64/MSYS2

2017-12-31 Thread Alan W. Irwin
run into the same issue that Greg has encountered, and when that occurs you should follow up with an error report to the MSYS2 list concerning that missing import library and dll situation for their latest qhull package. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research aff

Re: [Plplot-devel] Command-line parsing improvements for both C and Fortran

2017-12-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
t example. 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);

[Plplot-devel] Command-line parsing improvements for both C and Fortran

2017-12-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ted in PLplot that are lurking here on this list! 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 implementatio

Re: [Plplot-devel] libieee.a is no more

2017-12-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
a PLplot release in early 2018. Thanks once again for your key help with PLplot for the cutting-edge versions of Linux system software that you get with Fedora. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, Universit

Re: [Plplot-devel] libieee.a is no more

2017-12-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
is a fairly serious constraint on our plgrid function for i686 hardware. So I am hoping for the former result since that simply means the gcc option -mieee-fp is no longer required to get this NaN test to work correctly on i686 hardware. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical

[Plplot-devel] We now have a clean PostScript difference report!

2017-12-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-12-09 11:18-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: I am happy to report I have just solved the long-standing inconsistency between OCaml example 16 results and the results from other languages. See commit 35eafc1 for details. This breakthrough means that an absolutely perfect PostScript difference

[Plplot-devel] Long-standing OCaml example 16 inconsistency solved

2017-12-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
~6 years without that. "All" that needs to be done is to implement the color bar parts of example 33 in OCaml. I will take responsibility for that implementation. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,

Re: [Plplot-devel] Patch for OCaml 4.06

2017-11-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
e for Debian Stretch) or higher. I plan to do that Debian update soon, and if all goes well with that update your fix should be part of the next release of PLplot (tentatively scheduled for early 2018). Best wishes, Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research

[Plplot-devel] The Contracts.PLplot test of CMake has now been implemented and works well for me

2017-11-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
you become interested in testing CMake with a build of PLplot in this automated way on all the platforms of interest to you. If you have any further questions about configuring a Contracts.PLplot test of CMake, don't hesitate to get in touch with me. Alan __ Alan W. Ir

Re: [Plplot-devel] Possible fix for the test_ada project on Cygwin (NO LONGER RELEVANT)

2017-11-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-11-08 07:49- Arjen Markus wrote: Hi Alan, -Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2017 11:20 PM Hi Arjen: To clean up some preliminary stuff, please don't set GNAT_LIB unless absolutely necessary

Re: [Plplot-devel] Possible fix for the test_ada project on Cygwin (NO LONGER RELEVANT)

2017-11-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ool on the simplest shared gnatmake example I asked you to build the other day? That would be the first step in preparing a bug report to the Cygwin mailing list concerning the Ada component of the gcc tool chain based not on test_ada but on that even simpler shared gnatmake example. Alan ___

Re: [Plplot-devel] Possible fix for the test_ada project on Cygwin (NO LONGER RELEVANT)

2017-11-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-11-07 08:34- Arjen Markus wrote: Hi Alan, -Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2017 8:37 PM When you get a chance please commit this change on a local topic branch using "git am" and try it out

Re: [Plplot-devel] Possible fix for the test_ada project on Cygwin (NO LONGER RELEVANT)

2017-11-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
need to be corrected in the future for the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 case). When you get a chance please commit this change on a local topic branch using "git am" and try it out on Cygwin using cmake/test_ada/scripts/comprehensive_test.sh Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Ast

Re: [Plplot-devel] Possible fix for the test_ada project on Cygwin (NO LONGER RELEVANT)

2017-11-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-10-30 11:33-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: Hi Arjen (returning this discussion to the plplot-devel list): Thanks for sending me (off list) the output from the gnatmake -v hello.adb -cargs -fPIC -bargs -shared -largs -v -shared gnatmake -v hello.adb -bargs -static -largs -v -static

[Plplot-devel] Possible fix for the test_ada project on Cygwin

2017-10-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
with "git am" does cmake/test_ada/scripts/comprehensive_test.sh finally work for you on Cygwin? Also, win or lose, I would like to see the report tarball from this test. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and A

[Plplot-devel] CMake-3.10.0-rc2 yields good comprehensive test results for PLplot

2017-10-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
d37/>). 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 Eph

Re: [Plplot-devel] [plplot:bugs] #189 Using WIN32 Macro instead of _WIN32 (NOW FIXED)

2017-10-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
of it on all Windows compilers and Windows platforms (e.g., MSVC, Cygwin, and MinGW-w64/MSYS2) accessible to you. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming

Re: [Plplot-devel] [plplot:bugs] #189 Using WIN32 Macro instead of _WIN32

2017-10-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ng that I will wait to see your response to my comments above (as well as your results from the simple Cygwin test I proposed above). Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.

[Plplot-devel] [plplot:bugs] #189 Using WIN32 Macro instead of _WIN32

2017-10-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
g of code. 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.s

Re: [Plplot-devel] Issues with locate mode for the non-IPC3 case

2017-10-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-10-08 12:54+0100 Phil Rosenberg wrote: On 7 October 2017 at 02:14, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote: Hi Phil: I just discovered on Linux that your IPC3 workaround does allow -locate mode for example 1 to work perfectly for mouse clicks. (IPC3 locate mode ke

[Plplot-devel] non-IPC3 interactive issues with example 20

2017-10-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ort out all non-IPC3 problems for this example so I can use that corrected non-IPC3 model to figure out what to do in the IPC3 case. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uv

[Plplot-devel] non-IPC3 interactive issues with example 14

2017-10-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
scenario for the wxwidgets device so that when the (separate) master viewer pauses at page end, the master core must be forced to pause as well. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria

Re: [Plplot-devel] ocaml and antialiased gtk embedding (cairo)

2017-10-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
e to see the original question you asked, and any additional responses (possibly in the future) beyond the one you quoted. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

[Plplot-devel] Issues with locate mode for the non-IPC3 case

2017-10-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
because once they are solved I believe I should be able to quickly follow up with a reliable IPC3 variant using your corrected non-IPC3 implementation as a model. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University

Re: [Plplot-devel] Run-time issue on Linux (wxWidgets 3.0.2) that was introduced for commit e4fb932 or later.

2017-10-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-10-06 23:30+0100 Phil Rosenberg wrote: Hi Alan Try it now. Fingers crossed :-) Your commit (3fe27f0) got rid of this run-time invalid bitmap issue on Linux. Thanks! And now on to more wxwidgets testing for me. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research

[Plplot-devel] Run-time issue on Linux (wxWidgets 3.0.2) that was introduced for commit e4fb932 or later.

2017-10-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-10-05 20:44-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2017-10-06 00:19+0100 Phil Rosenberg wrote: This is a GCC vs Visual Studio difference I have seen before. I think my latest commit should have fixed it, but I don't have access to a linux system right now to test on. Hi Phil: Your commit got

Re: [Plplot-devel] wingcc and wingdi build bugs

2017-10-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
DK version.) 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)

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