To all developers here: 5.11.1 has been released. (For more details about that release, see the announcement on plplot-general.)
During the release process I discovered and fixed a pretty obvious but long-standing oversight (no D or Lua source code) for our website. I think such oversights just slip through because most of us are too familiar with our website to recognize any issues with it. So I would appreciate it if those here who are fairly new to our website or who feel they have a good critical eye to look carefully at our website to see if can spot any other oversights or errors that should be fixed. The 5.11.1 release means the release-related freeze is now gone, and I highly encourage you to push your matured topic branches to master for (a) thorough testing by all of us as we use the git master branch version of PLplot for our daily plot use and for comprehensive tests, and (b) inclusion in the next release. I plan to reinstate a soft freeze (no more pushes of big code changes) in mid-September to allow for plenty of testing time for such changes between then and the next release date (roughly 4 months from now). Currently I am aware of the following development possibilities for this release cycle: 1. Phil has already prepared an important memory management fix for wxwidgets, and I assume he will also want to deal with some/all of the remaining wxwidgets bugs. 2. Arjen is in the middle of a complete rewrite of our f95 bindings. 3. Jim is developing a new interactive device driver for Windows and has plans to create new plmeta capability which will be based on substantial changes to the plbuf code. 4. I hope for this release cycle to make a substantial fill fix, update epa_build, improve CMake exporting of PLplot targets, and fix Ada language support issues on Cygwin and MSYS2. And, of course, deal with any Build-system issues that are turned up by on-going comprehensive testing on all platforms. If the above summary isn't quite right I encourage Phil, Arjen, and Jim to reword the summary here, and if anyone else has possible development plans to add to this summary, please do that. I doubt we will all get everything done from the above list in the next 5 weeks before the soft freeze occurs, but I do hope we can all make a substantial dent in this list during this window of opportunity. 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
