On 2015-02-24 17:55-0000 Phil Rosenberg wrote: > Hi Alan et al > I have updated the bug report on SF. A number of the issues are now > fixed. I'm not sure I will have time nor if I should start fixing any > more of these before the release deadline. The ones that concern me > most are: > > super/subscript problems > Aspect ratio issues > hatchings > inline text changes > > The hatching issue might have to be dealt with because whatever it is, > it seems to be causing crashes in the Xwin driver. > > Inline text changes probably requires an overhaul of the text > parsing/buffering so it too intrusive to do now. > The other two issues may well be internal to the driver, if I get time > I will look at them, but I'm not sure I will.
It appears there are two remaining release-critical issues. 1. You should do one last check of Ubuntu and CentOS to make sure my recent drop of explicit linking to the rt library does not cause problems on those platforms. (And if it does, a one-line change should fix it). 2. I haven't experienced xwin crashes myself. Could you give me an explicit test that fails for you so I can verify this regression? I view the rest of the issues as "rough edges" on a newly rewritten device that we can safely postpone fixing until after the release. Issue 1. above should be trivial to check (and fix if necessary). Issue 2 is a troubling regression since xwin has been reliable for as long as I can remember. Therefore, I think it is important that we find a solution to this regression before the release. Once you give me a test that causes xwin to reliably crash here, then I can use that as a basis for figuring out (with git bisect) what commit caused this regression. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel