On 2017-07-22 15:07+0200 Ole Streicher wrote:
It may be however be useful if you could create a "release candicate" (or beta) tarball, and give some time to test it. I could create a Debian package out of that and upload to our "experimental" branch. While you do probably not want to wait until it builds on all platforms (it has to go through review of our ftp-masters), I can do some tests locally and report back (but please, give some time; it is holiday season :-) )
Hi Ole: I doubt I will bother with a release candidate. But we all make a pretty strong effort to keep the git master branch in good shape, and the current tip of the master branch (i.e., 4c90970 Build system: Quiet cmake developer warning ) is especially well tested. So I suggest you use that commit or later for your ongoing testing of the development version of PLplot. Of course, that commit is not a formal release candidate. For example, the version numbers (library SONAMEs as well as overall version) have not been upgraded yet, and that will only happen some time after our source code freeze and the associated review of the git log to see what changes have been made since 5.12.0. But the point is this well-tested version is much closer to 5.13.0 than 5.12.0 so if you fix all the issues for this development version (with me attending to some of them upstream like the install location issues I just addressed) you will likely have very little left to do on the Debian packaging front when 5.13.0 is officially released. Probably more important still, this is a relatively good time for me to make upstream changes based on your experience with the developer version of PLplot, but my willingness to implement such changes is going to rapidly decrease (i.e., I will likely put you off until post-release unless you have found something absolutely release critical) as we move closer to the release. 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
