Re: [Plplot-general] New release?

2016-09-23 Thread Tom Schoonjans
Hi Alan, Releasing regularly new versions of the package is always good: it instills confidence in users that they are using a software package that is being actively developed and maintained. However, I do think that the approach of having bug-fix branches is essential when making regular re

Re: [Plplot-general] New release?

2016-09-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Tom: On 2016-09-22 13:54+0100 Tom Schoonjans wrote: > In the scenario I am suggesting, you would just end up with a new branch that starts at a tag and will contain bug fixes only. It will never need to be merged into master as it will consist of commits that were cherrypicked from master. >

Re: [Plplot-general] New release?

2016-09-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Tom: At the end of this I have a question concerning using our preferred workflow at github (assuming someone wants to take responsibility for such a move). But first, you need some background. PLplot used CVS for a long time, then SVN for a long time, and then fairly recently made the transi

Re: [Plplot-general] New release?

2016-09-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Tom: You have opened up a lot of interesting topics for discussion here which I am going to answer in separate e-mails with separate subject lines. In those separate replys I will also quote some key questions that Hazen has already asked. More later... Alan __ Alan W

Re: [Plplot-general] New release?

2016-09-22 Thread Tom Schoonjans
Hello again, > We have been trying to maintain a linear history with git following the > process explained in the README.developers file. I think that the fork and > pull-request system would break this? Not necessarily, you can ask people submitting a PR that they rebase against master. You c

Re: [Plplot-general] New release?

2016-09-22 Thread Hazen Babcock
On 09/22/2016 04:58 AM, Tom Schoonjans wrote: > > Thanks for the fast reply. > > I appreciate that you want to make sure that all newly implemented features > have been properly tested before making the next release. Surely we can all > benefit from that. > > However, since a new release is at le

Re: [Plplot-general] New release?

2016-09-22 Thread Tom Schoonjans
Hi Alan, Thanks for the fast reply. I appreciate that you want to make sure that all newly implemented features have been properly tested before making the next release. Surely we can all benefit from that. However, since a new release is at least a month from now, I still would like to urge

Re: [Plplot-general] New release?

2016-09-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-09-21 14:22+0100 Tom Schoonjans wrote: > Hi all, > > > I was wondering if a new release of PLplot could be made soon, as the current > release does not build with CMake 3.6.x? The fix for it is currently in > master. > > Many thanks in advance and best regards, Sorry, but we are not yet

[Plplot-general] New release?

2016-09-21 Thread Tom Schoonjans
Hi all, I was wondering if a new release of PLplot could be made soon, as the current release does not build with CMake 3.6.x? The fix for it is currently in master. Many thanks in advance and best regards, Tom Schoonjans