Re: [Plplot-devel] Current test_diff_psc results

2010-06-13 Thread Andrew Ross
The lack of testing is a bit of a concern. There are also several outstanding issues which we want to address so I suggest the next release might not be too long in the pipeline. Andrew On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 10:40:05PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: Hi Jerry: I am moving this discussion to

Re: [Plplot-devel] Current test_diff_psc results

2010-05-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Doug, there is a fairly urgent question for you below. There is also a less urgent question for Werner. I have just started another round of testing this weekend in anticipation of the release next weekend, and here is the current status of the results from the test_diff_psc target (which is run

Re: [Plplot-devel] Current test_diff_psc results

2010-05-18 Thread Andrew Ross
Just to update on Alan's email last week. I've now fixed up f77, f95, java and python. Tcl is also in order. The fortran changes also involved tidying up plmap / plmeridian. Example 19 use an identify transform since fortran does not support NULL functions. This does not work as the generalised

Re: [Plplot-devel] Current test_diff_psc results

2010-05-17 Thread Arjen Markus
Hello, On 2010-05-12 19:53, Geoffrey Furnish wrote: Alan W. Irwin writes: This example require Tcl 8.5 or later: use of NaNs I've taken a look into Tcl example 21, and I'm not very convinced. What I find is that when I comment out the return which currently bails if you don't have

Re: [Plplot-devel] Current test_diff_psc results

2010-05-12 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: On 2010-05-11 12:29-0500 Geoffrey Furnish wrote: Geoffrey Furnish writes: Alan W. Irwin writes: C++ and OCaml are perfect, and here is the status of the remaining non-perfect bindings: tcl Missing examples:

[Plplot-devel] Current test_diff_psc results

2010-05-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
C++ and OCaml are perfect, and here is the status of the remaining non-perfect bindings: f77 Missing examples: Differing postscript output : 19 Missing stdout : Differing stdout: f95 Missing examples: Differing postscript output

Re: [Plplot-devel] Current test_diff_psc results

2010-05-11 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: C++ and OCaml are perfect, and here is the status of the remaining non-perfect bindings: tcl Missing examples: Differing postscript output : 19 21 28 Missing stdout : Differing stdout: 21 I believe I've

Re: [Plplot-devel] Current test_diff_psc results

2010-05-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-05-11 11:43-0500 Geoffrey Furnish wrote: Hi Alan, Alan W. Irwin writes: C++ and OCaml are perfect, and here is the status of the remaining non-perfect bindings: [...] tcl Missing examples: Differing postscript output : 19 21 28 Missing stdout

Re: [Plplot-devel] Current test_diff_psc results

2010-05-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-05-11 12:29-0500 Geoffrey Furnish wrote: Geoffrey Furnish writes: Alan W. Irwin writes: C++ and OCaml are perfect, and here is the status of the remaining non-perfect bindings: tcl Missing examples: Differing postscript output : 19 21 28

Re: [Plplot-devel] Current test_diff_psc results

2010-05-11 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: Since your question is of general interest to developers, I am posting my reply to the list. I'm working on Tcl #19. I'm close to getting it straightened out, hope to commit soon. Question: In my own comparisons between the C and Tcl examples, generated

Re: [Plplot-devel] Current test_diff_psc results

2010-05-11 Thread Andrew Ross
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 04:50:17PM -0500, Geoffrey Furnish wrote: Alan W. Irwin writes: Since your question is of general interest to developers, I am posting my reply to the list. I'm working on Tcl #19. I'm close to getting it straightened out, hope to commit soon.

Re: [Plplot-devel] Current test_diff_psc results

2010-05-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-05-11 23:53+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: Alan's idea of using cmp may be more efficient on Linux. I've not tried timing it. Not copying large files around must be more efficient. Is cmp widely available on non-Linux platforms? I suspect diff / tail are more common. The main reason I used