Re: [Plplot-devel] The status of the wxwidgets IPC development

2017-02-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ing of that same text (all on the wxPLViewer side), it could be done with this method. 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 equat

Re: [Plplot-devel] The status of the wxwidgets IPC development

2017-02-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
PLMemoryMap class are already good results from this effort. 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 fo

Re: [Plplot-devel] The status of the wxwidgets IPC development

2017-02-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
s been cleared up, I hope to have some useful results to report soon. 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

Re: [Plplot-devel] The status of the wxwidgets IPC development

2017-02-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-02-12 22:51-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > I plan to stick with my local instance approach for now (automatically > constructing a PLTwoSemaphore instance and destroying it again for > each call to my transmitBytes and receiveBytes methods), but move to > the private obj

[Plplot-devel] The status of the wxwidgets IPC development

2017-02-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
eally have no idea where we are going with the wxwidgets IPC until (4) is done. More later as I continue to make progress on (1) through (3). Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrow

[Plplot-devel] C++ class constructor question

2017-02-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
out you do believe the current simplified PLTwoSemaphores constructor approach will work OK, should we also switch to that simplified approach everywhere else (e.g., to handle wxPLDevice's use of PLMemoryMap)? Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation

Re: [Plplot-devel] Recent progress with wxwidgets IPC

2017-02-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
impler and there is at least no drop in efficiency we should adopt it but otherwise not. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the Fr

Re: [Plplot-devel] Recent progress with wxwidgets IPC

2017-02-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
eceive data and similarly for wxPLViewer. And, of course, I will leave the IPC approach used for the Windows case completely untouched. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.ph

Re: [Plplot-devel] Recent progress with wxwidgets IPC

2017-02-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-02-04 19:41-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > So in the ideal case (where all steps below ultimately work and there > are no efficiency reductions due to any of these steps) the remaining > planned steps in this development effort for the > -DPL_HAVE_UNNAMED_POSIX_SEMAPH

Re: [Plplot-devel] C++ help requested for step 1. (fwd)

2017-02-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
m_outputMemoryMap.getswm() in wxPLDevice::SetupMemoryMap. Anyhow, thanks for your help pointing out the default constructor issue for PLMemoryMap for my present code, and more later about whether the alternative idea of passing the wsem address works out or not. Alan __ Alan W. I

[Plplot-devel] C++ help requested for step 1. (fwd)

2017-02-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ot;more"? 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

[Plplot-devel] C++ help requested for step 1.

2017-02-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-02-04 19:41-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > 1. Make the current one-semaphore approach work with unnamed > semaphores. The last commit put essentially all the infrastructure in > place to support this further change so this change should be a simple > matter of replacing (f

[Plplot-devel] Recent progress with wxwidgets IPC

2017-02-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
, and I am beginning to get a bit more comfortable with C++. 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

Re: [Plplot-devel] C++ question

2017-02-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
rind memory issues). But because I guessed, will you please carefully review what I did (commit d2218b3) to make sure I didn't screw up? Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (ast

[Plplot-devel] C++ question

2017-02-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
warnings or errors? 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

[Plplot-devel] Proposed eop/wait changes have now been committed

2017-02-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
sting that device on a Windows platform (MinGW-w64/MSYS2?) where native software packages for the pango/cairo subset of the GTK+ suite of libraries are available. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of V

[Plplot-devel] Proposed eop/wait change for -dev wxwidgets

2017-02-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-02-01 17:33-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...] But regardless of these speculations the most important point is this current inconsistency between plbuf and wxwidgets should be addressed soon since plbuf now distinguishes between wait states and eop states and until wxwidgets also follows

[Plplot-devel] Important new evidence concerning the remaining Linux inefficiency issues for wxwidgets

2017-02-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
o have it completed in a matter of a week or so. However, I believe now your timely resolution of the above two wxwidgets issues is much more important than my own ongoing work on simplifying the wxwidgets IPC. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with De

Re: [Plplot-devel] Your development plans for this release cycle

2017-02-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
of the rest of the wxwidgets bugs that are still open would be helpful as well. 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 equat

Re: [Plplot-devel] A possible bug in the extXdrawable_demo application

2017-01-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-01-30 22:06-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...] > Here is the error message you get if you use the -DBUILD_TEST=ON cmake > option for the latest (at least commit 6589caa) git master branch > version of PLplot and build the test_extXdrawable target which builds > extXdrawable_

[Plplot-devel] A possible bug in the extXdrawable_demo application

2017-01-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
'test_extXdrawable' failed make: *** [test_extXdrawable] Error 2 Would you be willing to take a look at this error to see if you can figure out a fix? Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria

Re: [Plplot-devel] Your development plans for this release cycle

2017-01-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
g the GDI/Uniscribe wingdi driver with just one device implemented named "wingdi". 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 equ

Re: [Plplot-devel] Error propogation

2017-01-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
bsites (or some other website?) is the best reference for the purpose of trying to understand your proof of concept. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programmi

Re: [Plplot-devel] Your development plans for this release cycle

2017-01-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ould use a font dialog to ask the user which font they would like to > use and then use it. This isn't currently possible at the moment where > we just set the family. These remaining steps all sound good to me. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Depa

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot-5.12.0 has been released so the push freeze is gone

2017-01-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ent pace of development for PLplot remains roughly what it has been, I plan to make at least one bugfix release (5.12.1) and something like two more major releases (5.13.0 and 5.14.0) within the next 12 months. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliat

[Plplot-devel] Fill issue

2017-01-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
est again, for say 100 different random fill patterns. 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 implementat

[Plplot-devel] Your development plans for this release cycle

2017-01-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
(until somone figures out what the real issue is for that example). But it is obviously a good idea to wait until Phil adjusts the wxwidgets device driver and I restore your adjustment for the cairo device driver before you change plbuf some more. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin

[Plplot-devel] Your development plans for this release cycle

2017-01-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
The final upshot of that thread was you planned to make a proof of concept for us to look at (and help you propagate it to everywhere else in our C code during this release cycle if we liked that proof of concept). Anyhow, could you please implement that proof of concept now? Alan _______

[Plplot-devel] Your development plans for this release cycle

2017-01-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ng you can get comprehensive testing of what you build there with nmake in a CMD environment to work at run-time as outlined in 3. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.

[Plplot-devel] PLplot-5.12.0 has been released so the push freeze is gone

2017-01-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ng that fix, any additional fixes concerning wxwidgets that Phil and Pedro come up with, and any other PLplot bug fixes that are made between now and then. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, Univer

[Plplot-devel] I plan to release 5.12.0 tomorrow (Saturday)

2017-01-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
) so I am roughly half way through the release process now as detailed in README.Release_Manager_Cookbook. So it is going well, but this is a fundamentally unpredictable process so we will see how soon I will be able to finish this. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical

[Plplot-devel] I plan to release on Saturday unless a few more days delay would help you

2017-01-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
the required git cherry-pick command.) So unless I hear from you that a few more days delay on the release would be a significant benefit to you, I plan to just go ahead with the release on Saturday. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics

[Plplot-devel] We apparently now have floating-point consistency which we should take advantage of for testing purposes

2017-01-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
onsistency capability of C compilers. 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

Re: [Plplot-devel] plreplot and clearing the page (jim please read ifyou'e around)

2017-01-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
distinction in plbuf, I suggest you document that distinction clearly (in drivers/README.drivers or some other file that document refers to) so no other interactive driver writers run afoul of this issue. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with

Re: [Plplot-devel] plreplot and clearing the page (jim please read if you'e around)

2017-01-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
es. Jim supplied those changes for wingcc, cairo, qt, xwin, and tkwin, but the implication was Phil would have to appropriately modify the wxwidgets driver (or wxPLViewer?) himself. @Phil: Is the wxwidgets issue you have recently discovered simply because you never followed up with that required change

[Plplot-devel] Follow ups for commit c27eff0

2017-01-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
em again! :-) 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

[Plplot-devel] Proposed documentation and optional C example updates for the "arbitrary storage of 2D user data" commit

2017-01-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ions as replacements for their non-"f" counterparts which we test now? 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 eq

[Plplot-devel] The wxwidgets-related components of PLplot and the 5.12.0 release

2017-01-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ooking at a release date of roughly one week after the wxwidgets code changes are finalized, e.g., late next week if that finalization happens soon. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.u

Re: [Plplot-devel] Linux OnCreate delay bug -- solution

2017-01-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
sues for wxPLViewer and -dev wingcc. 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 interi

Re: [Plplot-devel] Linux OnCreate delay bug -- solution

2017-01-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ill do [README.release paragraph] plus this all really needs properly > adding to the docs. I will try to do that asap. Thanks. README.release paragraph is release-essential. DocBook update concerning wxwidgets is a "would-be-wonderful". Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin As

Re: [Plplot-devel] A pre release buffer bug

2017-01-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
fixed. 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

Re: [Plplot-devel] Linux OnCreate delay bug -- solution

2017-01-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
goes through those several examples. 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 st

Re: [Plplot-devel] legend and label using wxWidgets

2017-01-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ive than the fix you just made) whether to push it now or wait until after the release. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with

Re: [Plplot-devel] Linux OnCreate delay bug -- solution

2017-01-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
to work on both Windows and Linux.) Every tested platform that you add gives us just that much further confidence that Phil's solution is robust for this release, and I thank you in advance for all this essential testing work for our release. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin As

Re: [Plplot-devel] legend and label using wxWidgets

2016-12-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
hether this is a WxWidgets bug, a WxWidgets change that exposes a PLplot bug, or deliberate or accidental WxWidgets API breakage (e.g., changing the semantics of one or more WxWidgets function arguments). Anyhow, good luck on this hunt for the cause of the issue. Alan __ Alan W.

Re: [Plplot-devel] wxwidgets-related dependencies

2016-12-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
sters. 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 Ephemer

Re: [Plplot-devel] legend and label using wxWidgets

2016-12-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
t; before, it is actually a lot of fun, and "git help bisect" gives you all the information you need to run it. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Progra

Re: [Plplot-devel] wxwidgets-related dependencies

2016-12-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
equisites would be rebuilt, and the relevant example would be run with -dev wxwidgets. If that idea would work for you, let me know, and I will put it on my post-release ToDo list. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astrono

Re: [Plplot-devel] wxwidgets-related dependencies

2016-12-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
up attempting to build _every_ target including all the custom ones which, of course, always fails for the bare windows case. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). P

[Plplot-devel] wxwidgets-related dependencies

2016-12-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
lusion, please let me know. 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.n

Re: [Plplot-devel] Infinite Yielding issue

2016-12-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
will do what I should have done from the start which is to delay the release until you have properly solved this release-critical issue. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys

Re: [Plplot-devel] legend and label using wxWidgets

2016-12-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
it is important you answer our question whether the text issues you see are due to stale results left over from your previous builds. So please make a completely fresh build and let us know whether those text issues persist for that fresh build. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin As

Re: [Plplot-devel] legend and label using wxWidgets

2016-12-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
er now. I > think that I applyed patch because legend are good now but axis labels are > still wrong > > > > $ git log > commit 26bc4bf13aa41dff0e19345e982eca00a0458578 > Author: Alan W. Irwin <air...@users.sourceforge.net> > Date: Sat Dec 24 14:32:48 2016 -0800 >

Re: [Plplot-devel] Infinite Yielding issue

2016-12-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
so, then so be it, but we do have to warn users in the release notes of this backwards-incompatible change. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations wi

Re: [Plplot-devel] Infinite Yielding issue

2016-12-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
if we release with this)? 2. Are there any essential short-term changes you want to make to his approach for this release? (Essential here means release-critical as used in question 1.) 3. Are there any long-term (post-release) changes you want to make to his approach? Your answe

Re: [Plplot-devel] legend and label using wxWidgets

2016-12-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
of the above directions is not clear to you. 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 f

Re: [Plplot-devel] Infinite Yielding issue

2016-12-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ve (although some of those changes were an addition of a locate mode and nothing to do with API changes so your summary doesn't need to mention that locate mode addition). Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, Universit

[Plplot-devel] A large update to the release notes has just been completed

2016-12-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
. :-) 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

Re: [Plplot-devel] Linux testing

2016-12-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
the way X has been moving (toward Wayland, etc.) on Linux, that extremely useful network neutrality will just be a low-priority afterthought in the future. I blame this bad trend on the X developers never touching or seeing low-power boxes of any kind. :-) Alan __ Alan W.

Re: [Plplot-devel] Infinite Yielding issue

2016-12-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
e of the preprocessor macro Glad it is nothing serious. Please go ahead and make the above change to quiet the warning when you amend your second commit. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Vict

[Plplot-devel] Plans for IPC changes

2016-12-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
edro are, of course, welcome to join me in working on this proposed topic branch even if you decide to limit your involvement to acting as a sounding board if I run into trouble with this implementation. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Departm

Re: [Plplot-devel] Infinite Yielding issue

2016-12-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
feel fairly confident about your two commits because there exist at least two platforms where they appear to work. But hopefully you will have considerably expanded that number of "good" platforms by the 27th! Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affi

Re: [Plplot-devel] Linux testing

2016-12-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
comprehensive test (while still dropping wxwidgets) because that two years younger Ubuntu version than 14.04 should easily satisfy our minimum gfortan version requirement. And once you have the definitive fix for wxwidgets, then it should be completely straightforward to comprehensively t

[Plplot-devel] Trailing whitespace issues to be fixed post-release

2016-12-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ow.com/questions/591923/make-git-automatically-remove-trailing-whitespace-before-committing> But the huge number of possibilities discussed there seem to be fairly complex and have various drawbacks so I will likely just stick with running this simple script from time to time. Alan __

Re: [Plplot-devel] Infinite Yielding issue

2016-12-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ehensive_test.sh --help to see about those further possibilities if the 9 combinations turn out to be too much. :-) Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). P

Re: [Plplot-devel] Infinite Yielding issue

2016-12-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ase-critical issue so I would prefer we discuss your suggestion post-release when we are all more relaxed and have time to consider your suggestion carefully. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, Univ

Re: [Plplot-devel] Infinite Yielding issue

2016-12-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
to Phil and me for more testing/analysis. If it passes Phil's tests and mine, AND he likes your new approach, then I will revise my "Tested by:" section in the commit message appropriately and push your patch to finally put this release-critical issue to rest. Alan ___

Re: [Plplot-devel] Infinite Yielding issue

2016-12-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
mplementation that will quickly follow that decision about the best way to fix this issue in a fundamental way. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affi

[Plplot-devel] Significant improvement in our overall -dev wxwidgets speed on Linux

2016-12-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ayoff from that work not only for examples 08 and 25, but possibly several other examples as well. However, for this release we can still be proud of all the Linux wxwidgets efficiency progress made to this point. So, good work, Phil, on getting us to this stage! Alan _

Re: [Plplot-devel] Infinite Yielding issue

2016-12-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
guys understand. Does that seem like a reasonable plan for dealing with the fairly large release uncertainties created by this issue? Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Pro

[Plplot-devel] An alternative idea for comprehensive testing of MSVC + ifort

2016-12-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
roach (with Unix tools used just for testing but expressly not used for the build) the next time (likely in 2017) that you have a chance to work on PLplot testing on the MSVC + ifort build platform. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of

Re: [Plplot-devel] Comprehensive testing

2016-12-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
pts directory and commit it? It sounds like it would be useful to other MSVC + ifort testers. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the Free

Re: [Plplot-devel] Infinite Yielding issue

2016-12-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
a Linux PC that has roughly the same speed as that, you might find a platform where you obtain success with your simple example which might be a clue about the cause of this issue. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics

Re: [Plplot-devel] Infinite Yielding issue

2016-12-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
dictable. I am not signed up with google, but feel free to add my results (and download and build instructions for that matter) to the wxWidgets forum on google. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, Univers

Re: [Plplot-devel] Infinite Yielding issue

2016-12-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
least this release! 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.

Re: [Plplot-devel] Comprehensive testing

2016-12-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ate those two separate footnotes yourself? 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 inte

Re: [Plplot-devel] Comprehensive testing

2016-12-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-12-19 09:39- Arjen Markus wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] [...] >> From the e-mail you wrote back then, I have identified that platform as >> Ubuntu (I >> believe it was on some virtua

Re: [Plplot-devel] Comprehensive testing

2016-12-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-12-21 11:04- Arjen Markus wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] [...] >> I have additional questions about terminology. Is MSVC an IDE? (That is >> implied >> by the wikipedia article ab

Re: [Plplot-devel] Comprehensive testing

2016-12-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
e using nmake on the command line? I believe I have often described your tests as MSVC +ifort, but it appears that is not correct, if MSVC is an IDE that you are not actually using. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronom

Re: [Plplot-devel] Infinite Yielding issue

2016-12-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
isprove the latest commit 995e75e6086 is the source of some/all of the above issues by running those tests again on the previous commit. Which from the current "git log" results you should be able to get access to as follows: git checkout 995e75e6086^ or the equivalent git checkout

[Plplot-devel] Infinite Yielding issue

2016-12-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
finite Yielding issue gets your immediate attention. It does sound to me like this is a release critical issue, i.e., if it is not fixed by our current estimate of the release date (December 27th), I should probably hold the release until you do figure out a solution. Alan _____

Re: [Plplot-devel] New way to generate wxwidgets debug output

2016-12-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ate comprehensive tests on systems with access to the needed unix tools (bash, etc.), i.e., MinGW-w64/MSYS2 and Cygwin on Windows and Linux, Mac OS X, and traditional Unix systems, Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astron

Re: [Plplot-devel] Subscribing to our git feed

2016-12-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
finitive fix. That was good collaborative development work on an open source project you can both be proud of. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming

[Plplot-devel] Subscribing to our git feed

2016-12-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
our SF git server. Which, of course, is highly useful when doing collaborative development or testing of PLplot. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming af

Re: [Plplot-devel] New way to generate wxwidgets debug output

2016-12-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
eam fin( "/dev/random", std::ios::in ); instead. But I assume Phil will do (or has done by now) the equivalent using C++ exception handling. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrow

Re: [Plplot-devel] New way to generate wxwidgets debug output

2016-12-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-12-19 12:25-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2016-12-19 12:33-0500 Pedro Vicente wrote: > >> Hi Alan >> >> I just did a git pull of the master branch with these changes and I get >> compiling errors >> if I don't add >> >> -DPLPLOT_WX_NANOSEC=

Re: [Plplot-devel] New way to generate wxwidgets debug output

2016-12-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
o the 5- to 15-second pauses I get here. But the issue is now locally solved for me (as you can see from my last post) by replacing /dev/random with /dev/urandom.) But I do need C++ help from you or Phil to finalize that fix. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research af

Re: [Plplot-devel] New way to generate wxwidgets debug output

2016-12-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
to using /dev/random. How do I do that in C++? Or, better yet show me by going ahead and making the commit to that effect. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Progra

Re: [Plplot-devel] New way to generate wxwidgets debug output

2016-12-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
had two long-standing wxwidgets-related issues and today there is a decent prospect of fixing both of them. So I am pretty hopeful right now! Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (

Re: [Plplot-devel] wxPLplotDemo.cpp -- linux build error

2016-12-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
dows version requires a manual uninstall > first. I'm sure you're not deliberately making my life hard Alan ;-) > :-D :-D Sorry about that. I far prefer to make your life easy. :-) Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Phy

[Plplot-devel] I have now pinned down the long pause to a few lines of completely innocuous code.

2016-12-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
will have detailed timestamped debug messages, and maybe given that evidence the light will dawn with one of you about what is really going on here. There sure isn't any such "dawn" here! Your totally confused fellow PLplot developer, Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin A

Re: [Plplot-devel] Comprehensive testing

2016-12-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-12-19 09:39- Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > > > >> -Original Message----- >> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] >> The 5 new reports there are based on the Fortran subset of 4 recent >> comprehensive test reports

Re: [Plplot-devel] wxPLplotDemo.cpp -- linux build error

2016-12-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-12-19 00:30-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Anyhow, good luck with implementing this readiness check anyway you > like, and I look forward to your commit to that effect which can go > right on top of master tip (which should simplify your life). Then we can ask > Pedro to d

Re: [Plplot-devel] wxPLplotDemo.cpp -- linux build error

2016-12-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
uld simplify your life). Then we can ask Pedro to drop his (now hopefully redundant) fix to test your solution really works for all the platforms he has access to. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, Universit

Re: [Plplot-devel] wxPLplotDemo.cpp -- linux build error

2016-12-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
o lines above, and you need to set up our code that launches the event so that event can be uniquely identified for the wait call. So it looks really easy to do "when you know how", i.e., if you are already pretty experienced with C++ and wxwidgets. Alan ___

[Plplot-devel] New way to generate wxwidgets debug output

2016-12-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
g the experimental option -DPLPLOT_WX_NANOSEC=ON" for generating the nanonsec time step. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with

Re: [Plplot-devel] The pls NULL fix for some Linux platforms

2016-12-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
r present calls to wxLogDebug() will be replaced by using the macro PLPLOT_wxLogDebug(). I also plan to use PLPLOT_wxLogDebug in the -dev wxwidgets code to attempt to track down the cause of the big pause later today. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affilia

Re: [Plplot-devel] The pls NULL fix for some Linux platforms

2016-12-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-12-17 00:38-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...] > So if that is a good summary of the problem (the timing for when the > OnCreate event fires is not deterministic which your debug output > seems to have proved again and again) doesn't wxwidgets have a decent > way to wait fo

Re: [Plplot-devel] Cmake generation with wxWidgets on Windows

2016-12-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
a limited job well. A perfect example, of the Unix philosopy. So this method should work on any Unix system or Unix-like Windows system (e.g., Cygwin or MinGW-w64/MSYS2). But if you don't have Unix tools like "less" at hand, you can also instantly get complete documentation for find_libr

Re: [Plplot-devel] The pls NULL fix for some Linux platforms

2016-12-17 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 (

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