This morning I started working on the PLplot conversion. The process of creating both a local CVS, local SVN dump file, and local SVN repository from the SF CVS repository for PLplot takes about an hour. There were no obvious errors that occurred during that process. After that my scripts do various sanity checks (such as differing various tagged releases from the local CVS and SVN repos).
Those diffs turn up when a binary file has been clobbered by the conversion process, and I am in the middle of finding and fixing (by running cvs admin -kb) those PLplot binary files. So far, I have only looked at HEAD and I am satisfied for the results of it, but there are a lot of tagged releases to check as well in case some historical binary files did not have cvs admin -kb run on them. My goal here is to be able to reproduce good releases (with no clobbered binary files) from our new SVN repository back to v4p99d (which I believe was the first tag), and from my experience so far, I believe that goal is actually quite practical (which is a tribute to the quality of the cvs2svn software that I am using.) Anyhow, it's basically going well so it could be as early as tomorrow (Wednesday) when all my local repository checks finally pass. Whenever that occurs, I will immediately want to shut down access to CVS and get on with finishing the whole conversion process by uploading the validated (by the sanity checks) SVN dumpfile to SF and populating the SF SVN repository for PLplot with that dumpfile. IMPORTANT: Consider this post the last advance notice for that CVS shutdown. Of course, I will let this list know when that shutdown has actually occurred, and I also will keep this list informed if I run into problems with the sanity checks that are going to delay the CVS shutdown and finalization of the conversion to beyond tomorrow. 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 Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
