Short story: freeze deadline now chiselled in stone as December 17th. But that is just for intrusive fixes, and small bug fixes and large or small documentation updates can continue through to the day of the release which might be only 5 days later, December 22nd (if our further comprehensive testing doesn't turn up any release critical issues) or 10 days later December 27th if there are some release-critical issues to address.
Longer story with remarks relevant to Phil's current bug hunt at the end: For quite some time I have been working (off and on) on a high impact topic branch where I am attempting to restore const correctness to our PLplot code. That topic branch is high impact because there will be a backwards incompatibility introduced for most of our generic pointer use [which will effectively change from void * to const void *]. Several days ago I finally realized it was hopeless to get this topic matured enough for the present release so I am putting off merging this topic to master until early in the next release cycle. At the same time I managed to copy the updated include/plplot.h for this topic branch (which defines some additional useful self-documenting PLplot typedef additions) to the master branch with one typedef change to retain backwards compatibility for now. There were excellent results for that superficially intrusive change using unconstrained comprehensive testing with CMake-3.7.0. Today I followed up with a similar excellent results for unconstrained comprehensive testing using CMake-3.0.2. (See <https://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/wiki/Testing_PLplot/#Testing%20Reports> for the summary of these recent tests, and <http://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=PLplot_git> for the ctest subset of these results for the CMake-3.0.2 test. So I now have nearly the total range of CMake versions that we accept for Linux covered by excellent comprehensive test results of our git master tip, and for non-Linux systems where the minimum version of CMake that we accept is 3.6.2, I am hoping for similar good results for Arjen on Cygwin (latest CMake version there is currently 3.6.2) and MinGW-w64/MSYS2 (latest CMake version there is currently 3.7.0). I also hope that someone here with access to Mac OS X will try comprehensive testing on that platform with needed open-source libraries from one of Fink, MacPorts, or HomeBrew (all of whom provide CMake-3.7.0 or 3.7.1) to make at least one of those platforms as well supported as Linux or the above two Windows platforms. But regardless of the response I get on my request for comprehensive testing I am already done with my own comprehensive testing. Thus, I am in a mode where I plan to pick off just small bug issues and work on my topic branch consisting of a large update to our documentation that I plan to merge to master tip some time shortly before the release. So as far as I am concerned, because of the above decision to put off working on the const correctness topic, I am already in post-freeze mode (where only small bug fixes and/or large documentation updates are acceptable for merging to master) and even beyond comprehensive testing mode. Of course, the formal date of the freeze still remains December 17th to accomodate Phil if he has any chance at all of tracking down and fixing the wxwidgets long pause issue by then. I wish him the best on that important bug hunt because it has large impact on my testing of wxwidgets, but I am not going to delay the release for that fix. So if he doesn't make the freeze deadline 3 days from now (assuming the fix is large) or the release deadline (assuming the fix is small) from 5 to 10 days after the freeze deadline, so be it, and the first thing I will do post-release is spend an hour or so inserting write statments until I finally identify the Linux system call that is causing the long pause. But I do hope that Phil beats me to this task of finding that key system call that is holding up the parade since he know the wxwidgets code much better than I do and will likely take much less time to come up with a 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
