On 2009-09-23 13:23-0500 Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Alan W. Irwin > <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote: >> On 2009-09-16 12:06-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: >>> Do you think there will be enough changes to warrant another development >>> release before the stable release? >> >> Probably, but let's see how it goes. > > I would like to request another development release (5.9.6) before the > 5.10.0 release. I have added a lot of code to the OCaml bindings > which I think would benefit from an official development release. The > large amount of build-system updates, code reformatting and other > changes to the core PLplot code base would also benefit from the extra > publicity and testing a development release provides.
Hazen and I were obviously leaning this way already, but that is an additional excellent argument that completely convinces me our next release should be a developmental one. Accordingly I have just now changed README.release to indicate the next release will be 5.9.6. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
