Hi Alan,
See below.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2017 1:59 AM
> To: Arjen Markus
> Cc: PLplot development list
> Subject: RE: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0
>
> On 2017-08-07 11:05-0000 Arjen Markus wrote:
>
> > This certainly fixed the "Bad Address" problem - see the attached
> tarball.
>
> Hi Arjen:
>
> I did my usual checks of this report, and I am thrilled that error is gone
> AND you
> were able to finish the script this time without any further showstopping
> errors.
> However, this test result is still incomplete, and your platform needs to be
> updated
> to address those issues, see below.
>
> [...]
> > As the full run takes half a day
>
> [...]
>
> The fairly equivalent test here (although I test substantially more
> components of
> PLplot because Linux has allowed me to install virtually all of the PLplot
> soft
> dependencies) takes ~2 hours here on a decade-old (but still fairly high end)
> two-
> cpu box with each of those cpu's running at 2.4GHz. So I would predict it
> would
> take roughly 4 hours there on your one-cpu box if that single cpu also runs at
> roughly 2.4GHz. So out of curiosity does your "half a day" correspond to
> half a
> working day, i.e., 4 hours or do you mean something much longer than that?
>
No, half a working day :).
> [out of order]
> > I noticed that the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 installation that I used
> does not have the diff or cmp command, so a comparison is missing.
> [...] I will add diff later (and check the other components that are not
> accepted right
> now).
>
> I am really pleased that you are planning to do get rid of this (and other,
> see below)
> platform deficiencies by making this important update of your MinGW-w64/MSYS2
> platform before you do any more PLplot testing on this platform.
>
> There is one important caveat you should keep in mind about this platform
> update.
> My judgement from listening to complaints for a long time on the MSYS2 list
> is a
> given snapshot of this platform is not always in a self-consistent or even
> working
> state from one day to the next. So most days seem to be OK, but sometimes
> not.
> So to make yourself fairly immune to that uncertainty I suggest you attempt no
> additional package installs of any kind for your present platform.
> Instead, you should install a completely new version of
> MinGW-w64/MSYS2 from scratch using a unique installation prefix so you can go
> back to your current working but somewhat limited version of this platform if
> the
> new snapshot of MinGW-w64/MSYS2 does not work.
> Of course that new install should be automated as much as possible with a
> script to
> make it trivially easy for you to do further installs of MinGW-w64/MSYS2 from
> scratch as needed, i.e., one or two days later if that new version does not
> work for
> today's snapshot.
>
> That installation script should include a well-maintained list of packages
> that are
> needed for PLplot testing (and general full use of PLplot on this platform by
> users).
> That list of packages should include the ones you currently have installed
> plus "git"
> and "diffutils" (where the lack of prefix on these package names means you
> will be
> installing from the "msys" repository of MinGW-w64/MSYS2), and either "mingw-
> w64-x86_64-qt4" (preferably if your package installation allows that without
> conflicts
> since Qt4 is a more reliable library than Qt5 right now) or
> "mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5".
I checked the list of packages for "git", but there is nothing obvious that
will bring git into the mix. According to Google hits, you should simply
install git for Windows.
I have Qt4 now in the installation, but not pyqt4 due to the lack of "SIP" for
this platform. The information on SIP for MinGW-w64 is a trifle convoluted.
That is for later.
>
> All three package installs are important. The git package needs to be
> installed so
> that the comprehensive test script can figure out what git commit you are
> testing for
> PLplot. The diffutils package needs to be installed to supply the
> all-important
> diff.exe executable (as you independently discovered above). And qt4 (or qt5)
> needs to be installed so you can test on this platform our qt device driver
> which is
> potentially a source of many high-quality noninteractive devices on this
> platform (as
> well as one important high-quality interactive device, qtwidget, that you
> might wish
> to test post-release as a basis of comparison with other interactive devices
> on this
> platform).
>
> So I am very much looking forward to your noninteractive test report for your
> latest
> snapshot of MinGW-w64/MSYS2 with git.exe, diff.exe, and some version of the Qt
> suite of libraries all installed because that will finally make the level of
> your testing
> on this platform consistent with Greg Jung's level of testing two years ago.
> Furthermore, because Greg reported successful testing with both diff and Qt,
> I am
> fairly confident that the addition of diff and Qt by you will reveal no new
> issues.
> However, we will see about that since both
> MinGW-w64/MSYS2 and PLplot have changed a lot in the last couple of years.
>
Right. Running it today.
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