To Orion and Ole: Commit a730ebe34 has removed the last of the "new software" issues I have identified with Debian Testing = Buster.
@Orion: I encourage you to try that commit on Fedora to see if you get similarly good results for all Linux-available components of PLplot for that other cutting-edge Linux platform. @Both: You both also might want to experiment with this commit as the basis for much-improved PLplot packages for Fedora and Debian. However such packages can only be considered preliminary until PLplot makes an official release. What I can say on that topic is commit a730ebe34 is an important milestone on the trail to the next release, but we are not there yet. For example, the CMake test that is automatically produced every night by my computer for the CMake developers builds and tests the latest CMake. One of those tests is the PLplot contract test which tests whether a build (but not test) of PLplot is successful. That test is formally succeeding, but those PLplot builds are incomplete (with the cairo device driver dropped) because of incompatibilities with the way we configure our cairo device driver using internal details of the CMake pkg-config capability. Although the use of such internal details has worked well over many years with few adjustments needed for changes to those internal details with CMake version, it is again no longer working with the very latest CMake. This reflects the fundamental fragility of any method that uses internal details. Therefore, to deal with this issue my plan is to completely rewrite our support for the cairo device using the official CMake pkg-config support rather than internal details of that support. And there are also a few other topics I would like to squeeze into the next release. So this makes the ETA of our next PLplot release still somewhat uncertain, but I am still hoping to get it done this year (before Christmas season) rather than early next year. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel