Hi Alan,


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 7:08 PM
> To: Arjen Markus
> Cc: Greg Jung; PLplot development list
> Subject: RE: [Plplot-devel] comprehensive testing results on Cygwin
>
>
> Anyhow, your next actions on this platform should be to do the
> following:
>
> 1. Update your package list (in case there are a few more changes since you 
> did
> that earlier today) and also upgrade your whole
> MinGW-w64/MSYS2 system using the "pacman -Syu" command (taken as an
> example right out of the pacman man page).
>
Did so already - I had to restart the shell after that as nothing worked 
anymore, but now I do have CMake 3.4.1.

> 2. Assuming 1. works, then run Fortran-only comprehensive testing.


That ought to be easy, starting that rightaway.

>
> 3. Assuming 2. works, install all PLplot-relevant packages for the platform.
>

Clear enough

> 4. Assuming 3. works, do a minimally constrained comprehensive test with some
> iteration with 3 depending on what complaints about missing packages you get 
> from
> cmake.out.


Clear too.

...

>
> If you do something similar yourself with "pacman -Syu" every month or so you
> should follow that up by a minimally constrained comprehensive test of PLplot 
> to
> make sure everything is OK both with all components of PLplot and your MinGW-
> w64/MSYS2 platform.  And similarly with Cygwin.
>
A frequency of once a month feels "right". The Cygwin setup program works along 
a different philosophy than MinGW-w64's pacman, but I am getting used to both.

Regards,

Arjen

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