Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of the forthcoming 5.9.10 release

2013-09-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-09-29 17:15-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > The weather is complicating matters; a serious windstorm is predicted > tonight [...] We had lots of strong wind gusts but no power outage last night (although other residents of Vancouver Island were not so lucky). Also, I have finished updating th

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of the forthcoming 5.9.10 release

2013-09-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
The current status is my comprehensive tests found a linking issue which is now fixed. That essentially finishes off the last release uncertainty. However, I am currently working on some substantial improvements to the script that generates the release tarball to make it possible to use it for pr

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of the forthcoming 5.9.10 release

2013-09-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-09-28 12:47-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Just a quick update to say the commit freeze is still in place and the > release process is continuing. Despite some release details I am > working on that were not previously in README.Release_Manager_Cookbook > and which are extending the release

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of the forthcoming 5.9.10 release

2013-09-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Just a quick update to say the commit freeze is still in place and the release process is continuing. Despite some release details I am working on that were not previously in README.Release_Manager_Cookbook and which are extending the release process, I still hope to finish up by (late) this eveni

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of the forthcoming 5.9.10 release

2013-09-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Commit freeze declared starting now and continuing until the release process is finished. 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] Status of the forthcoming 5.9.10 release

2013-09-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-09-25 18:05-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > The status of my own pre-freeze ToDo list is everything is completed > except for a few final changes to the website (fixing a final few dead > links and figuring out the PHP code to only publish a subset of the > example 33 pages to the website). D

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of the forthcoming 5.9.10 release

2013-09-26 Thread Andrew Ross
Alan, As a first testing checkpoint, I've done a full build (including docs) on my current Ubuntu system and all appears to work fine. make test_diff_psc shows no differences except for the 2 ocaml examples with plcolorbar. A random visual check of some images looks ok. I've also run make tes

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of the forthcoming 5.9.10 release

2013-09-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Hez: I assume you have been paying close attention to this thread because of its release-sensitive subject line and because I did get your off-list e-mail a month ago saying you wanted to finish off the ocaml plcolorbar changes by the release deadline. Note, however, that that deadline is effe

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of the forthcoming 5.9.10 release

2013-09-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-09-23 13:07-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > In addition, the overall ToDo list for this release contains the > on-going plcolorbar propagation effort by Jerry (Ada), Andrew (D), and > Hez (OCaml). With revision 12523 (a recent commit by Jerry) I get the following clean results on Linux: ada

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of the forthcoming 5.9.10 release

2013-09-23 Thread Andrew Ross
On Monday 23 Sep 2013 13:07:23 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > In addition, the overall ToDo list for this release contains the > on-going plcolorbar propagation effort by Jerry (Ada), Andrew (D), and > Hez (OCaml). > > N.B. I plan to call a halt to commits of this propagation work by the > end of Thursd

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of the forthcoming 5.9.10 release

2013-09-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-09-20 08:56-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Here is what I hope to get accomplished before this release. [...] > 2. Add paragraphs to advanced.xml describing what pllegend and > plcolorbar do. DONE as of revision 12517 [...] > 4. Update README.release to reflect the current status of pllegen

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of the forthcoming 5.9.10 release

2013-09-22 Thread Arjen Markus
Message- > From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] > Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2013 11:30 PM > To: Arjen Markus; PLplot development list > Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of the forthcoming 5.9.10 release > > ... > Hi Arjen: > > Thanks for giving me a

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of the forthcoming 5.9.10 release

2013-09-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-09-20 08:56-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Here is what I hope to get accomplished before this release. > > 1. Implement sanity checks on NULL arrays for pllegend and plcolorbar. > This change means that any input array that is used internally (rather > than being ignored because of the speci

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of the forthcoming 5.9.10 release

2013-09-21 Thread Jerry
On Sep 20, 2013, at 8:56 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > We still seem on course for a release of 5.9.10 on September 28th (8 > days from today). > > Here is the status of the language bindings and examples. > All is well except for the following languages: > > ada > Missing examples:

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of the forthcoming 5.9.10 release

2013-09-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-09-20 08:56-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > We still seem on course for a release of 5.9.10 on September 28th (8 > days from today). > >[...] Here is what I hope to get accomplished before this release. > 5. Update README.release to reflect the current status of the Cygwin > platform. (This d