On 2015-03-26 18:50-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > With commit id 5f6e28f I finally have been able to complete > scripts/comprehensive_test.sh on Linux without issues which removes > the last known regression compared to 5.10.0 for this release which is > a much-desired result. > > My next steps are [1] to do some straightforward release preliminaries > (such as setting version strings and updating the website) followed by > [2] epa_build and comprehensive test of "plplot" on Linux (which will do a > similar test to what I just completed but for the latest versions of > PLplot dependencies) and [3] "plplot_lite" on MinGW/MSYS/Wine. Note that > Wine test will take a couple of days (since Wine is so slow).
I am happy to report that I have finished [2] above with no issues. The entire test took 3.7 hours to complete on my computer. For details about this successful comprehensive test using epa_build and the previous success at running scripts/comprehensive_tests.sh directly, see the reports I just posted at <http://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/wiki/Testing_PLplot/#Testing%20Reports>. Note, I am not interested in posting vague "it doesn't work" reports there, but if you did get the script to complete using one of the scripts options, say, to remove a component of PLplot that is not working for you, then I would definitely be interested in posting that definite result. So to take a concrete example, Greg is currently not having much luck with comprehensive testing on some variant of MSYS2, but that result is too vague at the present time to report in our wiki. But once he gets the *.out results to me that I have requested, I might be able to advise him what components of PLplot he should avoid (or maybe even come up with a build system fix) to allow him to finish scripts/comprehensive_test.sh on MSYS2, and that definite report detailing exactly which components had to be dropped would be well worth posting at <http://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/wiki/Testing_PLplot/#Testing%20Reports>. > > While I am doing those steps I strongly encourage the rest of you to > do comprehensive testing of PLplot master tip on all platforms that > are accessible to you following the instructions at > <http://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/wiki/Testing_PLplot/#Comprehensive%20testing> > and > <http://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/wiki/Testing_PLplot/#Testing%20Reports>. I very much appreciate the effort some of you have started putting into comprehensive testing, and now that I have shown the epa_build method of doing this works for master tip (as it also worked for the last release) on Linux, then some who are having trouble with system dependencies when running scripts/comprehensive_tests.sh directly might want to try the epa_build method instead following the instructions in cmake/epa_build/README. My next planned steps in the release process are to essentially prepare a release candidate ([1] above plus all other steps mentioned in README.Release_Manager_Cookbook that do not involve uploads to the SourceForge file release area) plus respond to any bugs that your own comprehensive testing might turn up. Once I am entirely satisfied with that result, I will finally try [3] above to give me the best chance of not having to repeat that (very long) test. Assuming that test finds no regressions I plan to complete the release with the actual upload of the tarball and signature file to SourceForge. 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
