On 2015-07-29 14:36+0100 Phil Rosenberg wrote: > HI Alan > I have looked at the Ubuntu bug and have found the issue. I thought I > had removed all instances of creating a wxFont from the driver in the > console mode side, but I missed one. This causes a crash on wxWidgets > 3.0 on my Ubuntu machine for every example. > > I thought I had created a fix, but it turns out that I have now > generated a heap corruption, so I need to go back and work out what is > going on there. In addition the fix is not a trivial one liner. (Once > I have fixed it) it will end up having knock on effects through the > wxWidgets text rendering code. > > So it is up to you what you think is the best course of action. On one > hand it is a fairly serious bug to let slip through a release, but on > the other it only affects a subset of users and if you want only > trivial changes at this late stage in the cycle then I understand > that. I would be happy either way.
Hi Phil: Thanks for that clear overview of the implications of this bug fix. It does sound like it is non-trivial so my decision is to avoid such a last-minute change and instead delay pushing this until post-release so we have a full release cycle to test the effects of this bug fix. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
