Alan, That sounds like a good idea. There have been a number of useful improvements / fixes since then. We definitely want to try and get the various language bindings and examples back into sync before then. I've now done the C++ examples to get the process started.
Andrew On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 02:50:16PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > Our last release was way back in February of this year so I think it > would be a good idea to get out another release fairly soon, say 6 > weeks from now near the beginning of December. That is about the > latest time in a year I would like to make a release so as not to > conflict with Christmas holiday plans for anybody here. > > Would that sort of time frame for the release be acceptable to everyone? > > Currently, I have one more item on my PLplot ToDo list which is to > update all necessary scripts I use in the release process (e.g., > scripts/make_tarball.sh used to create the release tarball) to replace > svn commands by their git counterparts. But I am going to wait until > the actual release process to deal with those issues. Also, assuming > Phil decides to work during this release cycle on an idea he told me > about off list to finally make -dev wxwidgets much more reliable, I > plan to help him with the build-system changes required by his idea. > > I also plan to help with propagation efforts. Here is the current > status of those: > > c++ > Missing examples : > Differing postscript output : 08 > Missing stdout : > Differing stdout : > f95 > Missing examples : > Differing postscript output : 08 19 > Missing stdout : > Differing stdout : > java > Missing examples : > Differing postscript output : 08 19 > Missing stdout : > Differing stdout : > octave > Missing examples : > Differing postscript output : 07 08 19 > Missing stdout : > Differing stdout : > python > Missing examples : > Differing postscript output : 08 19 > Missing stdout : > Differing stdout : > tcl > Missing examples : > Differing postscript output : 08 19 > Missing stdout : > Differing stdout : > ada > Missing examples : > Differing postscript output : 08 19 > Missing stdout : > Differing stdout : > adathick > Missing examples : > Differing postscript output : 08 19 > Missing stdout : > Differing stdout : > ocaml > Missing examples : > Differing postscript output : 08 16 19 33 > Missing stdout : > Differing stdout : > lua > Missing examples : > Differing postscript output : 08 19 > Missing stdout : > Differing stdout : > d > Missing examples : > Differing postscript output : 08 19 > Missing stdout : > Differing stdout : > > It would be good to get all of these issues cleaned up for the release > so I hope everyone helps out with these propagation issues for the > languages where they have expertise. > > The vast majority of these issues are due to changes made in example 8 > and 19. > > The example 8 change is > > "Add a 4th (and 8th) page that demonstrates plsurf3dl results for > Y index ranges that follow an ellipse (subject to integer > quantization)." > > So to propagate this change for a given language you need to add the > plsurf3dl API to the language binding (if it hasn't been implemented > already) and then modify example 8 for the language. > > The example 19 differences are due to Phil's recent addition of the > new functions plmapline, plmapstring, plmaptex, and plmapfill > functions to our API, and adding calls to those functions in example > 19 to implement a really nice looking Exmoor map page. So to > propagate this change for a given language you need to add those new > functions to the language binding, and modify example 19 for the > language. > > For this release, I also hope Arjen and Phil adjust the build system > (either by fixing non-working tests for simple issues or removing > non-working tests from the list of what is tested for tougher issues) > so that scripts/comprehensive_test.sh runs without errors for the > various Windows platforms accessible to them (Cygwin, MSYS, MSVC). > This is important because it finally establishes comprehensive test > benchmarks for those platforms that we can use as a basis of future > tests for regressions in our support of various Windows platforms. > Also as I have already mentioned off-list to them, it is easy to > implement a CMake warning message for each test that is skipped to > motivate fixing the non-working tests they discover. Note, this script > already works for the one Windows platform I have access to > (MinGW/MSYS/Wine) so script success on the platforms accessible to > them should require few if any changes. > > Alan > __________________________ > Alan W. 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