Hi Phil: One thing I failed to cover in my prior post this morning is it sounds like you have one more round of plbuf changes you would like to commit to master (probably including some or all commits from Jim's series) before release. That is fine, but you should also aim to put plbuf changes into a deep freeze (no further changes allowed before release except to sort out rendering regressions for all of PLplot) as early as possible this week. In other words, for the wxwidgets issues we discussed, if you cannot get the fix done in the next day or so, and the fix also involves plbuf changes, you should put off fixing the issue until after the release.
The point of such a deep freeze is that plbuf changes have the potential to introduce rendering regressions for all of PLplot (not just wxwidgets) as was demonstrated by Andrew's fix for example 2.02. Also, the zoom regression for -dev tk may also be another example of such a plbuf-generated rendering regression, but I should know more about that once I git bisect that issue. So to get at least one foot on dry land we want to get to a state where we _know_ there will be no more plbuf changes (except for PLplot rendering regression fixes) in this release cycle in the next day or so. Once I hear that announcement from you that a deep freeze has gone into effect for plbuf changes, then I plan to look very carefully at every page of our examples for any recently introduced rendering issues for, say, xcairo. But I would not want to do all the work associated with such a test until I know there will be no further plbuf changes other than rendering regression fixes. 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
