On 2014-10-16 14:20+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > [A release] sounds like a good idea. There have been a number of useful > improvements / fixes since [February].
I agree a release fairly soon is a good idea because I don't want to disappoint anyone whose work remains unreleased because there has been too long a delay since our last release (in February 2014). That said, December is not sure at all and it may be several months later. For example, I definitely would like to see Arjen have good test results for Cygwin, pure MinGW, MinGW/MSYS and possibly MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platforms for this release, and similarly for Phil and the MSVC (and possibly Cygwin and MinGW-w64/MSYS2) platforms simply to finally be able to assure our Windows users that they can safely use the full power of PLplot on all Windows platforms rather than the relatively small subset of PLplot functionality we have tested on limited Windows platforms before. I also view it as quite important to see Arjen's Fortran interface changes in this release since they should make it _much_ easier for our Fortran users to employ PLplot. That is obviously a lot for Phil to do and even more for Arjen to do for the remainder of this release cycle so I am pretty sure the beginning of December is optimistic for them to finish the above, but we will see what they say about that. Anyhow, if they ask me to delay the release by a couple of months so they have time to finish the above without a lot of stress, I would be all for such a change. But I will wait to make any changes in the tentative release deadline until I hear what they have to say. Meanwhile, let's all join in on the propagation efforts required to get a clean test_diff_psc result because both Phil and Arjen may surprise me and effectively say, "no, there is still a reasonable chance we can do all of the above in the next several weeks so let's go for early December". 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); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
