Hi Hazen, in addition to Alan's list there is one issue with the Tcl interface. Andrew is looking into it - at least the crash in example 29 has been solved, so probably the remaining issue is not a show stopper.
Regards, Arjen On 2009-08-24 07:23, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2009-08-23 20:47-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > >> We have 2-3 weeks until our tentative early September release date. I >> believe that everything that we wanted in 5.9.5 is in? Is there anything >> outstanding besides the tweaks to the color palette handling? > > Here are some comments on the present development issues I am aware of: > > * The release showstopper color palette initialization issue has now been > fixed (see my last post to the list). > > * You have just fixed the superscript/subscript issue for the cairo devices, > and I don't think any other devices have such issues other than the font > size issue for the pdf device. I believe the pdf device is still considered > to be experimental so it would be nice to get that issue fixed before the > release, but it is not essential. > > * Werner has stated he will be working on device drivers (presumably pdf and > wxwidgets) but I don't know how much time he has for that at the moment > or how far he has gotten. > > * Hez mentioned the off-screen rendering patch in response to your post but > didn't give an estimate of how long that would take. If that turns out to be > long, I don't think we should delay the release for it. > > * Alban plans to make animated rendering faster for -dev qtwidget and do a > final fix of the command-line options for qt_example the next opportunity he > has to work on qt. But that next opportunity is apparently several weeks > from now which is clearly too late for this release. Thus, his planned qt > work will presumably be in the release after this present release. > > * This week I do have some plans to extend my install tree testing to the > build tree, but that is just a matter of convenience and I presume that will > not introduce or find any release showstopper issues. > > * I also plan to document the new build system for the installed examples, > but such work should not introduce any release showstopper issues. > > * I have decided to put off the libqsastime enhancements I have discussed > before until after this present release since those enhancements are pretty > tricky (both in understanding the various time transformations that are > implied and actually doing the C coding that will be required to implement > them). Thus, the effort may take several weeks, and I certainly don't want > to do it in a rush to meet a release deadline since that is a perfect recipe > for introducing bugs. We certainly have more than enough improvements in > svn trunk to justify a development release now without waiting for further > development to be completed. > > Tomorrow I plan to do comprehensive tests of all three build modes (shared > libraries + dynamic devices, shared libraries + static devices, and static > libraries and devices) for the Debian stable platform accessible to me, and > I suggest others do that as well on all platforms that are accessible to > them. If those tests show no showstopper issues, then I am tentatively > thinking that we could do the release next weekend (i.e., either Saturday, > September 1st or Sunday September 2nd). > > Hazen, in case a release next weekend will not disrupt anyone's development > plans, would it be convenient for you to release on one of those days? Of > course, if it is not convenient for you or somebody prefers two weekends > from now, that would be okay with me as well. However, I prefer we not let > the timing slide to three weekends from now since I like to stick as closely > as possible to release deadlines once they have been stated, and September > 15th/16th barely qualifies (if at all) as "early September". > > Alan > __________________________ > Alan W. 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