Re: [Plplot-devel] When should we eliminate the autotools build system?

2007-08-20 Thread Andrew Ross
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 02:10:46PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > This recent screw-up on my part in even the most minimal maintenance of the > deprecated autotools build system, the zero testing we all gave that system > afterwards, and the lack of a volunteer who wants to maintain or even test > tha

Re: [Plplot-devel] plwarn, plabort, plexit versus ctest (Was -DHAVE_NUMPY=OFF does not work for svn trunk)

2007-08-20 Thread Andrew Ross
Works for me. Although some suitable phrasing to distinguish between plwarn and plabort would be be good. plabort is aborting the function so will probably produce odd results, but it is not fatal and is not aborting whole program. Andrew > On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 02:19:38PM -0700, Alan Irwin w

Re: [Plplot-devel] plwarn, plabort, plexit versus ctest (Was -DHAVE_NUMPY=OFF does not work for svn trunk)

2007-08-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2007-08-20 10:37+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > > Works for me. Although some suitable phrasing to distinguish between > plwarn and plabort would be be good. plabort is aborting the function > so will probably produce odd results, but it is not fatal and is not > aborting whole program. I have had

Re: [Plplot-devel] plwarn, plabort, plexit versus ctest (Was -DHAVE_NUMPY=OFF does not work for svn trunk)

2007-08-20 Thread Maurice LeBrun
Andrew Ross writes: > > Works for me. Although some suitable phrasing to distinguish between > plwarn and plabort would be be good. plabort is aborting the function > so will probably produce odd results, but it is not fatal and is not > aborting whole program. Sorry for not responding unt

Re: [Plplot-devel] plwarn, plabort, plexit versus ctest (Was -DHAVE_NUMPY=OFF does not work for svn trunk)

2007-08-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2007-08-20 13:06-0500 Maurice LeBrun wrote: > Andrew Ross writes: > > > > Works for me. Although some suitable phrasing to distinguish between > > plwarn and plabort would be be good. plabort is aborting the function > > so will probably produce odd results, but it is not fatal and is not > > a

Re: [Plplot-devel] plwarn, plabort, plexit versus ctest (Was -DHAVE_NUMPY=OFF does not work for svn trunk)

2007-08-20 Thread Maurice LeBrun
Alan W. Irwin writes: > Maurice and Geoffrey, please correct this if I have it wrong, but I believe > plwarn should be reserved for a warning where there is a reasonable fixup > available (e.g., "Driver does not support hardware solid fills, switching to > software fill.\n"), plabort should be

Re: [Plplot-devel] plwarn, plabort, plexit versus ctest (Was -DHAVE_NUMPY=OFF does not work for svn trunk)

2007-08-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2007-08-20 17:32-0500 Maurice LeBrun wrote: > While a call to plabort() may represent an internal plplot error, the fact > that it is not fatal nor necessarily interfering with future plot calls makes > it difficult to justify any error code set upon exit. There is the ctest downside, but ther

[Plplot-devel] ctest again

2007-08-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Andrew: Right after I sent off the last message going along with Maurice's wishes about no returned error code for plabort, I realized there is a good option to get ctest right without affecting the PLplot core; return from the test_xxx.sh scripts with a non-zero status code if any command outp

Re: [Plplot-devel] When should we eliminate the autotools build system?

2007-08-20 Thread Maurice LeBrun
Andrew Ross writes: > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 02:10:46PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > > This recent screw-up on my part in even the most minimal maintenance of the > > deprecated autotools build system, the zero testing we all gave that system > > afterwards, and the lack of a volunteer who w

Re: [Plplot-devel] Cairo Driver Family

2007-08-20 Thread Maurice LeBrun
(trying to catch up on email) Alan W. Irwin writes: > Once -ori 0, -ori 1, -ori 2, etc., work, then for fun try -ori 0.3 (i.e., > non-integer -ori values). You will find a long-standing PLplot bug for that > case which doesn't give correct plotted results (the rectangular viewport > gets shea

Re: [Plplot-devel] When should we eliminate the autotools build system?

2007-08-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2007-08-20 21:35-0500 Maurice LeBrun wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 02:10:46PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > > > [...] so long as we give some advance notice. Thefore, I think immediately > > > after 5.8.0 would be appropriate so that our first release in the 5.9.x > > > series and all develop