Just to summarize where we stand there are several open-ended issues blocking the release.
1. I am in the middle of a hunt for plend memory management issues caused by redundant library linking (see previous post to Andrew). 2. Because of issues like the qt_example segfault that I have just fixed, I have as yet been unable to complete a comprehensive test of PLplot on Linux. Until I can get such a clean test the possibility exists there are other such segfault issues lurking in our master tip code base due to some regression since the 5.10.0 release. 3. -DOLD_WXWIDGETS=ON does not yet work. For this case, all the wxwidgets related code in drivers, bindings/wxwidgets, and examples/c++ is identical to the old wxwidgets code that worked before. So the working hypothesis is there was some wxwidgets-only core change in bindings/c++, include, or src that is incompatable with the way the old wxwidgets code worked. This core change likely does not involve plbuf since old wxwidgets and our other device drivers depend on plbuf in similar ways. Thus, the problem is to find that old wxwidgets incompatible core change and make it conditional depending on OLD_WXWIDGETS. Both Jim and I have had a go at this issue, but we have both failed due to our lack of knowledge concerning wxwidets. As a last resort (because he is swamped by other commitments at this time) our leading wxwidgets expert, Phil, has kindly agreed to take a look at this issue although no promises as to when he will be able to figure this out. In sum, deep freeze (only documentation changes and fixes for regressions compared to 5.10.0 should be committed to master although otherwise development should continue on private topic branches) continues. Also, although we are obviously in the end stages of this release cycle there is no possibility of making even a reasonable estimate of the date for the release until the above 3 open-ended issues have been dealt with. 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
