http://miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Testing_PLplot#Testing_Reports shows some recent testing activity for both the test_noninteractive and test_interactive targets for this forthcoming release. Hazen has tested the static libraries/no dynamic devices case on Ubuntu, Andrew has tested the shared libraries/no dynamic devices case on Ubuntu, and I have repeated my CMake-2.8.1 test of the shared libraries/dynamic devices case for Debian using PLplot revision 11049 (which fixes the interactive testing regressions that were recently introduced) and libLASi revision 160 (which is a pre-release version of libLASi-1.1.1 which I urge you all to test as part of your PLplot testing).
Andrew's and my results show no release-critical errors, but Hazen's results show he is running into some sort of resource limit for any extensive qt tests he wants to make. In order to help Hazen figure out that issue and also to improve the general reliability of this forthcoming release, we obviously need to expand our testing to many other Linux platforms as well as Mac OS X, and Windows platforms. My understanding is that some of you are close to finishing such tests or have already done so. But such tests are much more useful (e.g., to help find future regressions) if you publicly record the results. Therefore, please take the 5 minutes to do that at http://miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Testing_PLplot#Testing_Reports My own plans are to extend testing of PLplot/libLASi to the MinGW/MSYS/Wine case over the next few days using a patched CMake-2.8.1 (that patch is essential for the Wine case), a recent Wine release (1.1.42) which I have not tried before, and the latest release of MinGW (4.5.0). Unfortunately, I just discovered that the 4.5.0 release of MinGW that was previously available at SourceForge is currently being reorganized so the files at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW seem to be temporarily unavailable. So I will wait a few hours today to start working on these tests, but if the delay is too long, I will go back to trying a pre-release version of MinGW 4.5.0 which I have already downloaded and which seemed to work fairly well for my first round of PLplot tests on MinGW/MSYS/Wine. Regardless of what version of MinGW/MSYS I use for this round of testing, I will put notes into our wiki on what needs to be prepared/installed to get the MinGW/MSYS/Wine platform working to build and test software. Those notes should aid any of our Mac OS X and Linux users with Intel-compatible hardware who are interested in helping out with building/testing PLplot on the free (both in the software freedom and monetary senses) MinGW/MSYS/Wine platform. 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 scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
