Hazen, please go ahead with the release today (Sunday). My testing is completed and Werner and Andrew have also finished their testing.
The longer story about my testing is as follows. I tested three configurations: (1) shared library/dynamic devices, (2) shared library/static devices, and (3) static library/static devices. For each of these configurations I did ctest testing in the build tree and ./plplot-test-interactive.sh in the install tree examples to exercise some interactive examples. The various bits of this script found a number of issues such as the Tk segfaults previously discussed, as well as ENABLE_pygcw (but not ENABLE_gnome2 or PLD_gcw) and ENABLE_wxwidgets (but not PLD_wxwidgets) errors. Accordingly ENABLE_tk ENABLE_itk, ENABLE_itcl, ENABLE_pygcw, and ENABLE_wxwidgets have all been disabled by default for this release so the above script works without errors. I also ran plplot-test.sh in a number of ways in the install-tree examples using the following personal scripts. ==> /home/software/huge1.sh <== #!/bin/bash echo psc all front-ends ./plplot-test.sh --device=psc echo pdfcairo ./plplot-test.sh --front-end=c --device=pdfcairo echo pngcairo ./plplot-test.sh --front-end=c --device=pngcairo echo pscairo ./plplot-test.sh --front-end=c --device=pscairo ==> /home/software/huge2.sh <== #!/bin/bash echo svgcairo ./plplot-test.sh --front-end=c --device=svgcairo # cmap0 errors #echo gif #./plplot-test.sh --front-end=c --device=gif echo jpeg ./plplot-test.sh --front-end=c --device=jpeg echo png ./plplot-test.sh --front-end=c --device=png echo psttfc ./plplot-test.sh --front-end=c --device=psttfc echo svg ./plplot-test.sh --front-end=c --device=svg # out of memory error + glibc backtrace #echo xfig #./plplot-test.sh --front-end=c --device=xfig (I run these two scripts simultaneously to utilize the two cpu's on my box.) Note, I had to turn off the -dev gif test because of all the errors generated by example 2 for that device, and I had to turn off the -dev xfig test because of a spectacular error (first time I have ever seen a glibc backtrace!) generated by example 27 for that device. I was tempted to disable both but decided not to because the problems are isolated to individual examples. I got good results for the two "huge" scripts and plplot-test-interactive.sh for my three different configurations. That plus all the testing Andrew, Werner, and others have done should be good enough for this current release (and I have run out of time anyway). Of course, my good testing results are somewhat artificial because they have been designed to avoid the errors I have mentioned. We should be able to quickly rectify at least some of these errors, post-release. For example, I am fairly confident I can fix the pygcw problem in fairly short order post-release because I have found revision 7984 does not have the problem while the latest revision does. So it should be "only" a matter of bisection to find which of our changes caused the problem. I also have to say I am impressed by the extensive notes in README.release detailing all the improvements we have made since the last release. I think our users are in for a real treat (!) once Hazen makes the release later today (Sunday). 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 libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
