On 2015-04-05 14:13-0000 Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > > > > I had some time today, so I decided to put some effort into the comprehensive > test for MinGW/MSYS. Please see the attached tarball. Things are looking > good, even though this case requires a wee bit of massaging.
Hi Arjen: Thanks very much for that help with comprehensive testing on the MinGW/MSYS platform. And the extra result you included with the tarball which was the script actually used to set up the environment variables for the test was very helpful as well. Post-release we should try and figure out why you need to do that massaging, and use --do_test_interactive no while I do not. That is a narrow (since many soft dependencies of PLplot are missing) but still extremely useful comprehensive test result for MinGW/MSYS which I will post to the wiki. Just out of curiosity, roughly how much time did this comprehensive test take to complete? I bet it was substantially less than the ~3 days a similar test takes on Wine! Note I still intend to do that long Wine test before the release. The previous time I did that test was early in this release cycle roughly a year ago. At that point, both --do_test_traditional_install_tree yes --do_test_interactive yes worked for me (the former because pkg-config was available to me via epa_build), and epa_build provided some important PLplot soft dependencies (i.e, dependencies which are not absolutely critical but which enhance the power of PLplot) such as swig, pkg-config, qhull, Tcl, and shapelib. Also, I was able to get the python binding and examples to work using a downloaded binary python for Windows. So I ended up doing a comprehensive test of PLplot on MinGW/MSYS using a substantial number of PLplot components, and I feel it is important to repeat that test to make sure no regressions in those good results for those components have been introduced in this release cycle. 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
