On 2009-07-12 19:34-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > > Hello, > > We are rapidly approaching the tentative early August release date for > PLplot 5.9.5. I believe we still have the following features pending for > this release: > > (1) The addition of the plarc() function to the API. > (2) Custom axis labeling. > (3) Automated coding style cleanup. > > Anything else that we want to get in? Anything that we want to drop for > this release? After this we'll be (or at least should be :) ) focusing > our attention more on stability and less on features until after 5.10 > comes out.
Thanks for that reminder. It's amazing how quickly this summer is going by. Here are some additional features I would like to see in this release. (4) Improved interactive testing (much progress, but still only partially done). (5) Finish work on qsastime (leap seconds, ephemeris time, TT, etc.) and extending python example 29 to demonstrate these new time capabilities once they are available. (6) Propagate python example 29 (once it is finished) to the other languages with API adjustments as needed for our various languages. Feature 4 should not take me too much longer. I am sorry feature 5 has already been delayed much too long, but I promise to get back to it and finish it off. Once it is done, feature 6 is completely straightforward. In light of the above 6 features (and probably more since I assume Werner will want to finish his D examples), a release date of only two weekends from now (which was my idea in the first place) is obviously optimistic. So let's put it off until the earliest weekend in September that is convenient for Hazen, but make that a hard deadline (since timely releases are important). 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
