On 2015-03-19 09:23-0600 Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 03/19/2015 12:41 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> On 2015-03-18 21:26-0600 Orion Poplawski wrote: >> >>> On 03/18/2015 08:41 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >>>> Here is where I think we are. >>> >>> The issues in Fedora land are: >>> >>> - The octave+swig+UTF-8 issue I just reported >>> - The move to the cairo2 ocaml bindings. We'll need to get this packaged in >>> Fedora to support it. >> >> Thanks for that report. If you test 5.10.0 the same way do you get >> similar results? That additional test would help to sort out whether >> these issues have been recently introduced in PLplot or whether the >> latest Fedora environment is somewhow incompatible with PLplot >> regardless of PLplot version. >> >> Alan > > Yeah, it's Fedora. I also replied to Jim's email.
That is good to know from our perspective of just making a new release, but I am also curious what could be causing the issue on Fedora. I think you have already mentioned a gcc-5 bug as a possibility, but could it also be a regression in behaviour for some new swig or octave version? I have had several interactions with the octave developers, and in my opinion they are somewhat blind to the possibilities with UTF-8. For example, our own octave plplot documentation is written in UTF-8 (for the math symbols), and it turned out that just worked in octave, but their internationalization team did not appear to be interested in the slightest in that obvious possibility for translating their own documentation strings to other languages. Anyhow, in my opinion it is quite possible that octave developers have introduced a UTF-8-related regression since they use UTF-8 so little themselves. 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
