Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.9.5 release schedule.

2009-08-25 Thread Andrew Ross
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:46:13PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > On 2009-08-25 19:09+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > > > While we're on the subject of patches, the svn patch command generates > > headers like > > > > Index: examples/c/x29c.c > > =

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.9.5 release schedule.

2009-08-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-08-25 19:09+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > While we're on the subject of patches, the svn patch command generates > headers like > > Index: examples/c/x29c.c > === > --- examples/c/x29c.c (revision 10316) > +++ examples/c/x29c.c

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.9.5 release schedule.

2009-08-25 Thread Andrew Ross
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:21:07AM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > > Hazen is the one who wrote most of cairo.c so if this patch is okay with > him, it is okay with me. > > Hazen, I don't recall you have ever discussed patches before so you may not > have much experience using the patch application. I

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.9.5 release schedule.

2009-08-25 Thread Hezekiah M. Carty
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Hazen Babcock wrote: > Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> >> Please go ahead and apply Hez's patch to your local source tree, and let >> us >> know whether you like how that patch changes the -dev xcairo user >> experience. I assume Hez will commit the patch or hold off until

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.9.5 release schedule.

2009-08-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-08-25 09:19-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2009-08-25 11:57-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: >> Um, you lost me here. On my calendar the 1st is a Tuesday and the 2nd is a >> Wednesday. Did you mean 8/29-30? or 9/4-5? Either is fine with me. > > Oops, you are right. (I was looking at the August

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.9.5 release schedule.

2009-08-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-08-25 11:57-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> >> Tomorrow I plan to do comprehensive tests of all three build modes (shared >> libraries + dynamic devices, shared libraries + static devices, and static >> libraries and devices) for the Debian stable platform accessible t

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.9.5 release schedule.

2009-08-25 Thread Hazen Babcock
Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > Please go ahead and apply Hez's patch to your local source tree, and let us > know whether you like how that patch changes the -dev xcairo user > experience. I assume Hez will commit the patch or hold off until > post-release based mostly on your evaluation since I don't t

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.9.5 release schedule.

2009-08-25 Thread Alban Rochel
Hazen Babcock wrote: > Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> Tomorrow I plan to do comprehensive tests of all three build modes (shared >> libraries + dynamic devices, shared libraries + static devices, and static >> libraries and devices) for the Debian stable platform accessible to me, and >> I suggest others

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.9.5 release schedule.

2009-08-25 Thread Hazen Babcock
Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > Tomorrow I plan to do comprehensive tests of all three build modes (shared > libraries + dynamic devices, shared libraries + static devices, and static > libraries and devices) for the Debian stable platform accessible to me, and > I suggest others do that as well on all p

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.9.5 release schedule.

2009-08-25 Thread Daniel Sachse
Hi, this is probably nothing for 5.9.5, but I'd like to remind of the issues with the Octave bindings (i.e. the "matwrap" script) in Windows. I will maybe have time to dig into the Perl problems in a while, unless there are plans -which I'd prefer- to switch to swig in the near future. (Andrew

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.9.5 release schedule.

2009-08-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-08-24 21:02+0200 Werner Smekal wrote: > I added this to the wiki > (http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Apply_a_patch) if this > is ok for you. Sure. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astron

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.9.5 release schedule.

2009-08-24 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Alan, > The key elements to pay attention to with the patch application are > to make > sure you are in the proper directory within the source tree, and the > --dry-run and -p options for patch such as -p0, -p1, etc. > Basically, the > number after the -p option is the number of subdirecto

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.9.5 release schedule.

2009-08-24 Thread Hezekiah M. Carty
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2009-08-24 00:33-0500 Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Alan W. >> Irwin wrote: >>> On 2009-08-23 20:47-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: We have 2-3 weeks until our tentative early September release date. I be

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.9.5 release schedule.

2009-08-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-08-23 22:23-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Tomorrow I plan to do comprehensive tests of all three build modes (shared > libraries + dynamic devices, shared libraries + static devices, and static > libraries and devices) for the Debian stable platform accessible to me, and > I suggest others d

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.9.5 release schedule.

2009-08-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Hez and Hazen: The latter part of this is directed to Hazen. On 2009-08-24 00:33-0500 Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Alan W. > Irwin wrote: >> On 2009-08-23 20:47-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: >> >>> >>> We have 2-3 weeks until our tentative early September release d

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.9.5 release schedule.

2009-08-24 Thread Andrew Ross
Hopefully testing will show up any other issues with the various bindings. It would be nice to finally put to rest the issues with tcl precision, but that probably depends on Arjen having time. Also there is the report that Orion made that plplot does not work with the new octave 3.2. Ideally we

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.9.5 release schedule.

2009-08-23 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Hazen, in addition to Alan's list there is one issue with the Tcl interface. Andrew is looking into it - at least the crash in example 29 has been solved, so probably the remaining issue is not a show stopper. Regards, Arjen On 2009-08-24 07:23, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2009-08-23 20:47-040

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.9.5 release schedule.

2009-08-23 Thread Hezekiah M. Carty
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2009-08-23 20:47-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > >> >> We have 2-3 weeks until our tentative early September release date. I >> believe that everything that we wanted in 5.9.5 is in? Is there anything >> outstanding besides the tweaks to the c

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.9.5 release schedule.

2009-08-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-08-23 20:47-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > > We have 2-3 weeks until our tentative early September release date. I > believe that everything that we wanted in 5.9.5 is in? Is there anything > outstanding besides the tweaks to the color palette handling? Here are some comments on the present

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.9.5 release schedule.

2009-08-23 Thread Hezekiah M. Carty
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Hazen Babcock wrote: > > We have 2-3 weeks until our tentative early September release date. I > believe that everything that we wanted in 5.9.5 is in? Is there anything > outstanding besides the tweaks to the color palette handling? The only other potential change