On 2010-04-30 14:54-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Accordingly, I have implemented a new table at > http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Testing_PLplot to help > you report your test results, reassure users about what > platforms/configurations have been tested, and also to give you public > credit for your testing efforts. > > The Wiki syntax for tables is extremely straightforward. Furthermore, I > have already supplied one test report there [...] > to act as a template for your own report.
I have just completed my fifth and sixth test reports there. The whole time required to file those two reports was roughly a minute because the cut/paste idea for copying wiki table syntax works very well. Those 6 reports cover all combinations of CMake 2.6.4/2.8.1 and our three principal configurations (shared libraries/dynamic devices, shared libraries/non-dynamic devices, and static libraries/non-dynamic devices) for Debian Lenny. Aside from the example propagation issues I have recently mentioned, there were no obvious build or run-time issues (segfaults, hangs, etc.) shown by these tests which bodes for Debian users of our forthcoming release. Obviously, though, we need testing on other Linux platforms and also for various Mac OS X, and Windows platforms. Thus, I hope to see testing reports from all of you at http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Testing_PLplot summarizing what I hope is your extensive testing activity for this forthcoming release. Following up on that idea, my PLplot plans for the next week or so are to try to help with testing on the MinGW/MSYS and MinGW Windows platforms using Wine. From my preliminary look at this possibility several weeks ago, I am confident these platforms are going to work well for PLplot on Wine eventually, but there are still some initial time-consuming issues to figure out because I am virtually a complete Windows/Wine newbie. Also, on Windows (and Wine) you have to do a lot of your own downloads and builds of various libraries that PLplot depends on so that is time consuming as well. But as a result of this effort I hope to find bugs for CMake on Wine to report to the CMake developers as well as PLplot build-system bugs for both MinGW/MSYS and MinGW that I can fix myself. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
