On 9/18/24 00:32, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
* 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.
I'm afraid that without at least some active maintainers it will bitrot as languages progress. The most recent issue I ran into was Python 3.13 support. Fortuanately, the fix for that turned out to be pretty simple:
https://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/plplot/merge-requests/5/I package plplot for Fedora, but only as a dependency for gdl, though there are a couple other Fedora packages that I don't maintain that use it as well. gdl has discussed maintaining their own stripped down fork as the changes they have wanted to see incorporated into plplot have not been made, see https://github.com/gnudatalanguage/gdl/issues/1654
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