Hi Hazen: Your comment below got me thinking about this new subject.
On 2009-09-03 10:07-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > Since this [command-line parsing] issue has been around for years and I'm the > only one who seems to struggle with it I'm not inclined to delay the > release until it gets sorted out. On the whole, I prefer to stick to release dates once we set them, but in this case of four (!) issues that affect our premier devices it may be better for us to back off and release a week later instead depending on whether there is a good chance an extra week would allow us to sort out some of these issues. Let me know what you think about this. Here are those issues again: (1) The above command-line parsing issue. The valgrind investigations I suggested for this case may allow you to find the reason for this error and fix it in a relatively small amount of time. Do you have time to work on this before the weekend of September 12th/13th? (2) plend/qt segfaults on some platforms. This one is still pretty open ended, but Alban appears to be actively investigating it so he might well benefit by a week's delay in the release. (3) plend/xcairo segfaults on all (?) platforms. Certainly, I see this issue on my platform. Hez, are you working on this one? (4) locale/qt issue which have not been fixed in the best way, yet, IMO. I believe we can find the right solution before September 12th/13th. We all can only work on PLplot part time so a day of actual work may easily stretch to several days of real time. So (4) is very likely to benefit from a week's delay in the release, and some or all of the rest of the issues might benefit as well depending on how much time our various developers have to track down and fix these issues in the extra time provided by a week's delay in the release. I don't think we should delay the release by much more than a week though since if a week's part-time effort doesn't solve these issues, then throwing more time at it may not help much either. Hazen, would releasing during the weekend of September 12/13th be convenient for you? If not or if you or others here don't feel a week's delay in the release would help to solve the above issues for our best devices, then despite those issues I would be willing to go along with the scheduled release this weekend (September 5th/6th). 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
