* Orion Poplawski <or...@nwra.com> [2024-09-13 21:49]:
I haven't seen a post on this list from anyone other than me since August 2023. Is it time to consider this project dead?
I have contributed to PLplot for almost a decade, starting in year 2000. Even though I ceased to contribute upstream, I still maintain the Debian packages for PLplot, which are in pretty good shape today: there are no important bugs filed, and the package builds fine and all tests pass in the set of official architectures of the Debian distribution (amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips64el, ppc64el, riscv64, and s390x). As long as the situation remains like that, the package will be kept in Debian.
That said, the project seems quite dead upstream. The last commit to the Git repository was done in May 2023. Besides that, there is a backlog of 72 bugs and 5 patches in the Tickets session at the SourceForge website.
That said, the longevity of the project is impressive. According to git log, the initial commit was done by Geoffrey Furnish in 1992 (using CVS at that time). In the initial sources, there were drivers for pen plotters, like HP-7580! [*] Indeed, it seems that PLplot was pen-plotter friendly from the very beginning.
Best, Rafael Laboissière [*] https://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=76 _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
