Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of the release

2013-12-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
My tests went somewhat further than they ever had before on MinGW/MSYS/Wine. The test_noninteractive and test_interactive targets worked just as they had before in the build tree, but also this time ctest worked there as well. But I ran into errors when I attempted to extend the tests beyond that

Re: [Plplot-devel] Test summaries for README.release need editing

2013-12-21 Thread phil rosenberg
Hi Alan Some full background Visual C++ Express is the stripped down C++ part of Visual Studio, which is what I use (because it is free). This includes the IDE, nmake, a compiler cl.exe (front and backends) and a linker LINK.EXE all in one package. Each of these components almost definitely g

Re: [Plplot-devel] Test summaries for README.release need editing

2013-12-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Phil: My incoming e-mail is still down, but I saw your note at http://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/mailman/plplot-devel/ giving more background information about your tests. I will update the appropriate paragraphs in README.release according to that information. Thanks! For everybody monitoring

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of the release

2013-12-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Today I have gone through a large majority of the release process so I feel confident the actual release will be tomorrow (Sunday). Note the commit freeze is still in effect. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,