To everyone here: The actual date of the release is still uncertain because I am not completely done with my planned comprehensive MinGW/MSYS testing yet. However, I have been having good luck with comprehensive testing on Linux, so now (revision 12980) would be a good time to repeat the tests (currently documented in README.release) that a lot of you did for the last release.
The plplot_lite epa_build with ENABLE_COMPREHENSIVE_PLPLOT_TEST=ON (and with interactive parts of the test turned off locally to speed up the test) goes through with complete success on the Linux platform showing there are no regressions introduced by the build system changes since the previous good test results for this platform. Note, as indicated by the ENABLE_COMPREHENSIVE_PLPLOT_TEST name, this test is a comprehensive noninteractive one that is done with script/comprehensive_test.sh. This test took roughly half an hour on Linux. On top of that epa_build regression check for the Linux platform, I have successfully completed some critical bits and pieces of the same comprehensivive plplot_lite tests on MinGW/MSYS/Wine that were failing for the last release. That leads me to believe a repeat on that platform of the comprehensive test described above for Linux is likely to succeed. I have therefore initiated such a test ~5 hours ago, and it is still going strong with no run-time errors. If that success continues, then from the time it has taken to do individual parts of the comprehensive test, I think the whole thing will finish roughly 15 (!) hours after the start which is a Wine slowdown of a factor of roughly 30 compared to the equivalent Linux test. As I have remarked before, that slowdown is due to the peculiarly large command startup latency for Wine multiplied by the ~10^5 commands that occur in this comprehensive test. This huge latency slowdown should not occur for any other Windows platform and certainly not for any non-Windows platform. As of revision 12980 I have also updated the epa_build directions in cmake/epa_build/README to be consistent with my latest comprehensive testing experience with epa_build. Therefore, this is a good time for anybody here interested in doing comprehensive testing to follow those instructions. @Andrew: note the degree of parallelism is now kept at -j4 rather than -j8 so some of the X issues you had with large numbers of interactive tests going on simultaneously on one of your platforms might be gone this time. @Arjen: This would be a good time for you to attempt to adapt the directions in the above README file for the MinGW/MSYS/Wine case in order to replicate my current test on your MinGW/MSYS/Microsoft Windows platform. I think the Microsoft Windows command startup latency will be considerably less than the Wine case so the timing should be much reduced compared to the Wine case and roughly the same as the Linux case, i.e., roughly an hour. So if you start on this right away and don't have any trouble figuring out my directions, it is possible you could finish this test before I do. :-) Of course, I am pretty sure this is the first time you have attempted to do such comprehensive tests of PLplot so it is more likely that you will run into some trouble, but I would be more than happy to help you with that if it occurs. For the initial stages of getting this to work, I suggest you first try building just a few of the -DBUILD_THE_BUILDTOOLS=ON projects. But if all goes well (indicating you have set up the required environment variables correctly and your downloaded MinGW and MSYS have been installed correctly) you should be able to build all of them. (Note, this lack of caution is allowed because I have already gotten rid of most/all of the MinGW/MSYS epa_build issues. But, of course, you would want to proceed more cautiously for the Cygwin case where there are likely to still be epa_build issues.) The other deviation from the official instructions, is I suggest you temporily drop the interactive part of the -DBUILD_THE_BUILDTOOLS=OFF -DENABLE_COMPREHENSIVE_PLPLOT_TEST=ON test case (as I am doing for my long MinGW/MSYS/Wine test above). This can be done by locally editing cmake/epa_build/plplot_lite/CMakeLists.txt to replace the first "echo yes" that occurs in that file by "echo no". Anyhow, good luck with your MinGW/MSYS testing. @Everybody: Assuming the comprehensive noninteractive MinGW/MSYS/Wine test described above finishes for me without errors, then the last thing I plan to do for this release cycle is to repeat this comprehensive test both for Linux and MinGW/MSYS/Wine for the interactive test case. In addition, I assume some of my time before the release will also be consumed by attempting to deal with errors that others find through their own testing. For those reasons the actual date of the release is still uncertain, but with luck it might be as early as the middle of next week. But given a choice between fixing some obvious error one of you finds or doing the release regardless to meet some arbitrary deadline, I will do the former. So I look forward to seeing lots of test reports from you guys! :-) Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). 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