[Plplot-devel] Your development plans for this release cycle

2017-01-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Jim: Now that 5.12.0 has been released, I am writing a series of posts to our active developers with this subject line, and it is now your turn. :-) By all means please tell us of your plans for the current release cycle, but in any case I strongly encourage you to start working again on two

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot-5.12.0 has been released so the push freeze isgone

2017-01-30 Thread p.d.rosenberg
Congratulations and well done for getting that out Alan. Here’s to continuing to push PLplot to be as good as it can be. Phil Sent from my Windows 10 phone From: Alan W. Irwin Sent: 30 January 2017 01:22 To: PLplot development list Subject: [Plplot-devel] PLplot-5.12.0 has been released so the

Re: [Plplot-devel] Your development plans for this release cycle

2017-01-30 Thread Phil Rosenberg
Hi Alan So I think here are my priorities, in no particular order: 1) wxWidgets Docs - the driver doc is currently well out of date and the binding docs are non-existent. I have rewritten the driver docs and started on the bindings. As you said in your release notes the docs are probably still a

[Plplot-devel] Error propogation

2017-01-30 Thread Phil Rosenberg
Hi all We have had this discussion in the past. But I would like to reopen it. We really really need to get id of the exit() calls in PLplot. I don't think that we can really make any recommendation that our library is "industrial strength" while they are their and I would be very nervous about us

[Plplot-devel] Fill issue

2017-01-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
To Phil: You said: > 2) The fill bug where the whole plot gets accidentally filled - I can't remember if that still exits or if a workaround fix was added. Thanks for reminding me of that rather complex fill issue. No fix has been done yet so that issue should still be with us. I had already s

Re: [Plplot-devel] Your development plans for this release cycle

2017-01-30 Thread Jim Dishaw
> On Jan 30, 2017, at 3:40 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > Hi Jim: > > Now that 5.12.0 has been released, I am writing a series of posts to > our active developers with this subject line, and it is now your > turn. :-) > > By all means please tell us of your plans for the current release > cycle

Re: [Plplot-devel] Error propogation

2017-01-30 Thread Jim Dishaw
> On Jan 30, 2017, at 6:00 AM, Phil Rosenberg wrote: > > Hi all > We have had this discussion in the past. But I would like to reopen it. > > We really really need to get id of the exit() calls in PLplot. I don't > think that we can really make any recommendation that our library is > "industri

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot-5.12.0 has been released so the push freeze is gone

2017-01-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Phil: On 2017-01-30 09:50- p.d.rosenb...@gmail.com wrote: > Congratulations and well done for getting that out Alan. Thanks! The whole release process was more difficult than it normally had been for me in the past because it had been much too long since the previous release. That is th

Re: [Plplot-devel] Your development plans for this release cycle

2017-01-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Phil: On 2017-01-30 10:17- Phil Rosenberg wrote: > Hi Alan > > So I think here are my priorities, in no particular order: > > 1) wxWidgets Docs - the driver doc is currently well out of date and > the binding docs are non-existent. I have rewritten the driver docs > and started on the bind

Re: [Plplot-devel] Error propogation

2017-01-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Phil: On 2017-01-30 11:00- Phil Rosenberg wrote: > [...] Once we have this first look at how > setjmp/longjmp can work in our code then I think it will be easier for > us to make an informed choice about the A options. > > Does that sound sensible to people? Yes. And to help us follow al

Re: [Plplot-devel] Your development plans for this release cycle

2017-01-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Jim: On 2017-01-30 10:45-0500 Jim Dishaw wrote: > I will rebaseline my driver with the newest release and push to the git repository. I now have a Windows Vista and a Windows 10 build environments setup for development and testing. I also have a high DPI machine that will help test out the i

[Plplot-devel] A possible bug in the extXdrawable_demo application

2017-01-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Jonathan: It has been a while since you have been in contact with the plplot-devel mailing list so I hope this email address for you still works. An issue has emerged with the extXdrawable_demo application that you donated way back in 2008 to PLplot. What happened was Jim Dishaw made a signifi

Re: [Plplot-devel] A possible bug in the extXdrawable_demo application

2017-01-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-01-30 22:06-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...] > Here is the error message you get if you use the -DBUILD_TEST=ON cmake > option for the latest (at least commit 6589caa) git master branch > version of PLplot and build the test_extXdrawable target which builds > extXdrawable_demo and its prere

Re: [Plplot-devel] A possible bug in the extXdrawable_demo application

2017-01-30 Thread Jonathan Woithe
Hi Alan On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:06:18PM -0800, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > It has been a while since you have been in contact with the > plplot-devel mailing list so I hope this email address for you > still works. All good. I've been lurking on the list as a way of keeping an eye on developments.

Re: [Plplot-devel] A possible bug in the extXdrawable_demo application

2017-01-30 Thread Jonathan Woithe
Hi Alan On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 11:31:06PM -0800, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2017-01-30 22:06-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > [...] > >Here is the error message you get if you use the -DBUILD_TEST=ON cmake > >option for the latest (at least commit 6589caa) git master branch > >version of PLplot and