Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of release testing

2009-01-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-01-15 17:55-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > In sum, for my Debian testing platform and Orion's Fedora platform we are > essentially ready to release although there are still some well-known issues > discovered for the last release that "would-be-nice" to fix for this > release. It appears we

Re: [Plplot-devel] plfreetype smooth=1 bug for example 24

2009-01-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-01-16 23:43- Andrew Ross wrote: > If it is any consolation I can confirm your report on my Ubuntu system. > Example 24 has not been updated since mid 2006 other than for a const > char * tidy-up. The cookbook in in the example does say to use -drvopt > smooth=0 so I suspect this is an

Re: [Plplot-devel] plfreetype smooth=1 bug for example 24

2009-01-16 Thread Andrew Ross
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:15:14AM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: > If I recall correctly, running the exact directions buried in x24c.c used to > work fine for -dev png (and other plfreetype-related devices) > but that no longer seems to be the case. > > (TTFDIR=/usr/share/fonts/truetype ; > PLPLOT_FRE

Re: [Plplot-devel] Example status

2009-01-16 Thread Andrew Ross
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:05:58PM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: > P.S. Since the Tcl-8.4 precision issue only occurs on some platforms, I also > suggest we don't say anything about this in our release notes since this may > just be a Tcl-8.4 issue on some platforms rather than something intrinsic to >

Re: [Plplot-devel] Example status

2009-01-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
P.S. Since the Tcl-8.4 precision issue only occurs on some platforms, I also suggest we don't say anything about this in our release notes since this may just be a Tcl-8.4 issue on some platforms rather than something intrinsic to PLplot. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical

Re: [Plplot-devel] Example status

2009-01-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-01-16 19:25+0100 Arjen Markus wrote: > >> >> All that is going to take time, and we are only two days away from our >> release on Sunday. Arjen, if you can quickly figure out the best >> implementation and get a commit done in the next few hours (or by early >> Saturday (your time zone) a

Re: [Plplot-devel] Example status

2009-01-16 Thread Andrew Ross
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 07:25:03PM +0100, Arjen Markus wrote: > > > > > All that is going to take time, and we are only two days away from our > > release on Sunday. Arjen, if you can quickly figure out the best > > implementation and get a commit done in the next few hours (or by early > > Satur

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of release testing

2009-01-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-01-16 13:54- Andrew Ross wrote: > Alan, > > I think I have now fixed this one. h2def.py did not understand the > PLDLLIMPEXP macros in plplotcanvas.h. Stripping these out with sed before > processing means the python plplotcanvas bindings are generated > correctly again. I get a load o

[Plplot-devel] plfreetype smooth=1 bug for example 24

2009-01-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
If I recall correctly, running the exact directions buried in x24c.c used to work fine for -dev png (and other plfreetype-related devices) but that no longer seems to be the case. (TTFDIR=/usr/share/fonts/truetype ; PLPLOT_FREETYPE_SANS_FONT=$TTFDIR/arphic/bkai00mp.ttf PLPLOT_FREETYPE_SERIF_FONT=$

Re: [Plplot-devel] Example status

2009-01-16 Thread Arjen Markus
> > All that is going to take time, and we are only two days away from our > release on Sunday. Arjen, if you can quickly figure out the best > implementation and get a commit done in the next few hours (or by early > Saturday (your time zone) at the latest), then that would give the rest of > us

Re: [Plplot-devel] Example status

2009-01-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-01-16 11:18- Andrew Ross wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:10:22PM +0100, Arjen Markus wrote: >>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:40:24AM +, Andrew Ross wrote: >>> >>> To follow up my own post - switching to tcl8.5 gives perfect results, so >>> this is not a 32-bit issue. Perhaps we s

[Plplot-devel] release schedule

2009-01-16 Thread Hazen Babcock
Hello, My plan is to create a release Sunday afternoon EST unless I hear otherwise. -Hazen -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadt

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of release testing

2009-01-16 Thread Andrew Ross
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 05:55:16PM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: > > I tried testing the > optimized case for default hidden visibility by setting > > softw...@raven> export CC='gcc -fvisibility=hidden -O2' > softw...@raven> export CXX='g++ -fvisibility=hidden -O2' > softw...@raven> export FC='gfort

Re: [Plplot-devel] Example status

2009-01-16 Thread Andrew Ross
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:10:22PM +0100, Arjen Markus wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:40:24AM +, Andrew Ross wrote: > > > > To follow up my own post - switching to tcl8.5 gives perfect results, so > > this is not a 32-bit issue. Perhaps we should add a note that tcl 8.5 > > is recommende

Re: [Plplot-devel] Example status

2009-01-16 Thread Andrew Ross
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:10:22PM +0100, Arjen Markus wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:40:24AM +, Andrew Ross wrote: > > > > To follow up my own post - switching to tcl8.5 gives perfect results, so > > this is not a 32-bit issue. Perhaps we should add a note that tcl 8.5 > > is recommende

Re: [Plplot-devel] Example status

2009-01-16 Thread Arjen Markus
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:40:24AM +, Andrew Ross wrote: > > To follow up my own post - switching to tcl8.5 gives perfect results, so > this is not a 32-bit issue. Perhaps we should add a note that tcl 8.5 > is recommended, although previous versions will work? > You should get the same perf

Re: [Plplot-devel] Example status

2009-01-16 Thread Andrew Ross
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:40:24AM +, Andrew Ross wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:31:24AM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: > > Due to Andrew and Arjen's extremely recent efforts, java, python, and tcl > > join c++, f77, f95, perl, and ocaml to give perfect PostScript and stdout > > comparison resul

Re: [Plplot-devel] Example status

2009-01-16 Thread Andrew Ross
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:31:24AM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: > Due to Andrew and Arjen's extremely recent efforts, java, python, and tcl > join c++, f77, f95, perl, and ocaml to give perfect PostScript and stdout > comparison results with the corresponding C examples. Here are the only > remaining i

Re: [Plplot-devel] Example status

2009-01-16 Thread Andrew Ross
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:31:24AM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: > Due to Andrew and Arjen's extremely recent efforts, java, python, and tcl > join c++, f77, f95, perl, and ocaml to give perfect PostScript and stdout > comparison results with the corresponding C examples. Here are the only > remaining i

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of release testing

2009-01-16 Thread Arjen Markus
> The status of testing for this forthcoming release is as follows: > > * I have recently confirmed the segfaults are still there for all our > Tk-related examples, but not for -dev tk. I have updated README.release > accordingly. That notice should be removed if somebody can figure this > out.

Re: [Plplot-devel] Recent example 14 fix for mixed Fortran/C stdout buffer issue

2009-01-16 Thread Arjen Markus
> I have committed (revision 9319) a general fix for this issue which > involves > "call flush(6)". I have checked in the appropriate documentation that the > flush routine is available in fortran support libraries for the g77, > gfortran, absoft, intel, and Portland group compilers so I think thi