On 2009-08-23 22:23-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > 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).
I have completed one of these build mode tests so far (shared libraries + dynamic devices), and I had to comment on the vastly improved postscript differences that test revealed. Here are the full results: c++ Missing examples : Differing postscript output : Missing stdout : Differing stdout : f77 Missing examples : Differing postscript output : Missing stdout : Differing stdout : f95 Missing examples : Differing postscript output : Missing stdout : Differing stdout : java Missing examples : Differing postscript output : Missing stdout : Differing stdout : octave Missing examples : 19 Differing postscript output : Missing stdout : Differing stdout : python Missing examples : Differing postscript output : Missing stdout : Differing stdout : tcl Missing examples : Differing postscript output : 16 19 21 29 Missing stdout : Differing stdout : 21 perl Missing examples : Differing postscript output : 03 16 19 29 Missing stdout : Differing stdout : 14 ada Missing examples : Differing postscript output : 17 19 29 Missing stdout : Differing stdout : adathick Missing examples : Differing postscript output : 17 19 29 Missing stdout : Differing stdout : ocaml Missing examples : Differing postscript output : Missing stdout : Differing stdout : lua Missing examples : Differing postscript output : Missing stdout : Differing stdout : d Missing examples : Differing postscript output : Missing stdout : Differing stdout : Many languages are perfect now, and I thank everyone who helped to make that happen. I don't think we should delay the release for the remaining issues shown above, but it "would be nice" if most of them got addressed before the release. * I understand the long-standing missing example 19 issue for octave is a difficult one to solve so realisticaly fixing that issue will probably have to be put off until post release. * Arjen and Andrew are still working on precision issue for tcl. Once those are corrected and bindings and examples upgraded to be consistent with the updated C API tested by the updated C examples, the remaining tcl issues should go away or at least greatly simplify. * The perl issues require Doug Hunt to update his external PDL/PLplot bindings, and also update the examples to be consistent with the C API and example updates. * The "red" issue that generated quite a bit of e-mail over the weekend is completely gone for Ada, but there is still some more work for Jerry to do on the Ada bindings and examples to achieve consistency with the recent additions to the C API and the tests of that API that occur in the updated C examples 17, 19, and 29. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
