[Plplot-devel] CMake version discussion

2017-10-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
you might have with 3.9.4 and your particular Windows SDK so we can make the appropriate bug reports to CMake to get the issue fixed to protect _all_ our users in your situation. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astrono

Re: [Plplot-devel] Commit e4fb932 introduced a wxPLViewer build bug on Linux (wxWidgets 3.0.2)

2017-10-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
DPL_WXWIDGETS_IPC3=ON and OFF. Thanks for the quick fix! Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation

Re: [Plplot-devel] wingcc and wingdi build bugs

2017-10-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-10-05 09:10+0100 Phil Rosenberg wrote: On 5 October 2017 at 04:10, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote: The cmake messages above come from cmake/modules/wingcc.cmake and the first part of the relevant logic is find_library(GDI32_LIBRARY gdi32 HINTS ${MINGWL

[Plplot-devel] Commit e4fb932 introduced a wxPLViewer build bug on Linux (wxWidgets 3.0.2)

2017-10-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
nd the differences between 3.0 and 3.1, I hope the issue is due to that difference and will therefore be easier for you to fix. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.

Re: [Plplot-devel] Further to your recent comment for wxwidgets gradient bug 173

2017-10-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ood answer to my question. :-) Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interi

[Plplot-devel] wingcc and wingdi build bugs

2017-10-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
including sending him patches to try, but it seemed to trail off at the end with nothing resolved with regard to the wingdi build bug on his platform. What needs to be done to get this issue resolved? Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department

Re: [Plplot-devel] Further to your recent comment for wxwidgets gradient bug 173

2017-10-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-10-04 11:53+0100 Phil Rosenberg wrote: On 3 October 2017 at 18:00, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote: On 2017-10-03 11:24+0100 Phil Rosenberg wrote: Hi Alan It may be possible to do as you said with a clip region and an affine transform. I did consider this bu

Re: [Plplot-devel] Some remaining wxwidgets inefficiency concerns for examples 17 and 08

2017-10-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote: On 2017-10-03 23:44+0100 Phil Rosenberg wrote: On Windows the fill test took 5 seconds using the old comms method and 12 with the new. That's with optimisations turned on and I just timed it with my phone stopwatch from the point where I hit

Re: [Plplot-devel] Some remaining wxwidgets inefficiency concerns for examples 17 and 08

2017-10-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ce when compared to wingcc and wingdi timing results for your platform. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS e

Re: [Plplot-devel] Some remaining wxwidgets inefficiency concerns for examples 17 and 08

2017-10-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
further strategies for finding the source of these large plline and plfill -dev wxwidgets inefficiencies. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations

Re: [Plplot-devel] Is it time to remove some IPC cruft from our wxwidgets-related code?

2017-10-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time

Re: [Plplot-devel] Slave displays

2017-10-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
an to work on the above side issue. So I hope you have followed my arguments above and will follow up by implementing this fix instead of me (which has the added benefit that I will continue to not mess with the wxwidgets code while you are working on this so you don't have to deal with conflicts

Re: [Plplot-devel] Is it time to remove some IPC cruft from our wxwidgets-related code?

2017-10-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
clicks to work and code cleanup to get rid of non-IPC3 code) obviously should come after these locate issues with display and mouse clicks are solved. So please go ahead and push your commit(s), and I will test them on my Linux platform. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin

Re: [Plplot-devel] Some remaining wxwidgets inefficiency concerns for examples 17 and 08

2017-10-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
of order] I'm not sure what the cause is right now, but I'll run those examples through a profiler and see. Thanks! Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming

[Plplot-devel] Further to your recent comment for wxwidgets gradient bug 173

2017-10-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
such as wxDC or wxGraphicsContext above) we inherit from. I would appreciate an answer to this question since that should allow me to always know in the future exactly what wxWidgets library methods are available to us. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research

Re: [Plplot-devel] Is it time to remove some IPC cruft from our wxwidgets-related code?

2017-10-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
debugging methods will help spot and fix whatever the issue might be. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equatio

Re: [Plplot-devel] Slave displays

2017-10-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
d Andrew: It is very likely that one of you made the master/slave relationship work so well for xcairo and/or qtwidget. If so I would appreciate you commenting further. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, Un

[Plplot-devel] Some remaining wxwidgets inefficiency concerns for examples 17 and 08

2017-10-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
w versions of wxwidgets render fills so slowly compared with other interactive devices for example 8. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations wi

Re: [Plplot-devel] Is it time to remove some IPC cruft from our wxwidgets-related code?

2017-10-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
. That value is significantly smaller than the ring buffer size which is set to 1024K (in drivers/wxwidgets_dev.cpp) for the case when PL_WXWIDGETS_IPC3 is not #defined. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy

[Plplot-devel] Is it time to remove some IPC cruft from our wxwidgets-related code?

2017-10-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
code which is currently compiled only if the PL_WXWIDGETS_IPC3 macro is NOT #defined. That change should make both the -dev wxwidgets code and wxPLViewer code much easier to understand which is why I am pushing for this change. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research a

Re: [Plplot-devel] -eofill issues with -dev wxwidgets and possible rewrite of streams and src/plargs.c

2017-10-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
implementation details. But please educate me if that impression is incorrect. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS

Re: [Plplot-devel] -eofill issues with -dev wxwidgets and possible rewrite of streams and src/plargs.c

2017-10-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-09-30 19:22-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: Anyhow, thanks very much for this fix, and I have changed the status of https://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/bugs/174/ to closed-fixed. I have just discovered a really strange problem with your recent -eofill fix (commit b603fd22). The issue

[Plplot-devel] Helping you to collect evidence to support a fill-rule bug report for wxWidgets on Windows

2017-10-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
So once you confirm that, it would be pretty good evidence of a wxWidgets library bug in the Windows case. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming

Re: [Plplot-devel] -eofill issues with -dev wxwidgets and possible rewrite of streams and src/plargs.c

2017-09-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-10-01 01:11+0100 Phil Rosenberg wrote: On 30 September 2017 at 19:35, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote: [...] By the way, other command-line options such as examples/c/x27c -dev wxwidgets -geometry 300x200 do work fine for -dev wxwidgets so the issue with the -

[Plplot-devel] -eofill issues with -dev wxwidgets and possible rewrite of streams and src/plargs.c

2017-09-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-09-30 15:06+0100 Phil Rosenberg wrote: Hi Alan On 30 September 2017 at 07:31, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote: On 2017-09-30 02:27+0100 p.d.rosenb...@gmail.com wrote: I suspect this will be a bug in the render buffer, where the fill method is not correctly

Re: [Plplot-devel] I am having trouble figuring out why the -eofill command-line optionis being ignored for -dev wxwidgets

2017-09-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
but what? Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Eph

Re: [Plplot-devel] [Bug] Plmap omits lines at the left hand side ofthe map

2017-09-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-09-30 02:39+0100 p.d.rosenb...@gmail.com wrote: Sent from my Windows 10 phone From: Alan W. Irwin Sent: 29 September 2017 20:31 To: Phil Rosenberg Cc: Mark de Wever; plplot-dev For those who may now how plfill works a bit better than me, something that is supported by shapefiles

[Plplot-devel] I am having trouble figuring out why the -eofill command-line option is being ignored for -dev wxwidgets

2017-09-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
as opposed to the fixed non-zero fill rule that is now being used. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-

Re: [Plplot-devel] [Bug] Plmap omits lines at the left hand side of the map

2017-09-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
r they run into an anticlockwise part and by changing our DocBook documentation of those routines appropriately? Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming af

Re: [Plplot-devel] How to use plplot in my project using cmake ?

2017-09-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
e all output from both the above cmake and nmake commands. Once I understand what is going on with the PLplot configure (with cmake) and build and install (with nmake), then we should follow up with a similar analysis of the configure and build of your own software. Alan _

Re: [Plplot-devel] How to use plplot in my project using cmake ?

2017-09-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Lplot configuration step? 2. What is the complete output when you built the "install" target for PLplot? 3. Above you have only given me a part of the CMake logic used to configure your own project. Please send me all of that logic (or give me a URL where I can browse it). Also, please sen

Re: [Plplot-devel] How to use plplot in my project using cmake ?

2017-09-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
for you at the present time is to suggest you adapt our own logic as above to satisfy your own needs. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations

Re: [Plplot-devel] How to use plplot in my project using cmake ?

2017-09-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
actual locations on your disk for the PLplot headers and libraries) before we can help you determine _why_ those variables are empty. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.

Re: [Plplot-devel] Can statically allocated z arrays be used as the z argument for plshade (and plshades, plcont, plimage, and plvect)?

2017-09-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
n routine. Therefore, I have changed my plans for plshade1 back from converting it to a C-only demonstration routine to deprecating it (and eventually eliminating it) again. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,

Re: [Plplot-devel] Can statically allocated z arrays be used as the z argument for plshade (and plshades, plcont, plimage, and plvect)?

2017-09-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
and ada examples I plan to replace plshade1 calls with plshade. II. Deprecation of historical C++ API variants [concerning the distinction between PLINT and bool arguments]? I am going ahead with this backwards-incompatible change as described previously. Alan __ Alan W

Re: [Plplot-devel] This next release cycle should finish in early 2018

2017-09-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-09-15 10:06+0200 Ole Streicher wrote: Dear Alan, On 09.09.2017 20:35, Alan W. Irwin wrote: I did take a quick look at the above URL but saw no obvious issues. So it appears your Debian repackaging efforts have been a complete success for our latest version of PLplot. Congratulations

Re: [Plplot-devel] Can statically allocated z arrays be used as the zargument for plshade (and plshades, plcont, plimage, and plvect)?

2017-09-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
cruft-removal mood so I hope you are willing to go along with my plans I. and II. above (unless there is some strong reason you are aware of to hold back from making one or both of these changes). Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Departmen

Re: [Plplot-devel] This next release cycle should finish in early 2018

2017-09-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-09-09 14:21+0200 Ole Streicher wrote: Hi Alan, On 29.08.2017 19:48, Alan W. Irwin wrote: To summarize, I think you should do multiple builds for python 2.7, 3.5, and 3.6 (with relatively small extra build cost), but I agree you should stick strictly to Qt5 for our Qt-related

Re: [Plplot-devel] Missing pyqtconfig module issue should now be fixed

2017-09-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
e first stages again of the comprehensive test, but this time without specifying PYQT_SIP_DIR? Our build system should now (commit e3e0f15) automatically be able to determine PYQT_SIP_DIR on MinGW-w64/MSYS2 without you needing to specify it, and I hope the above test will confirm that. Alan ________

Re: [Plplot-devel] Missing pyqtconfig module issue should now be fixed

2017-09-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-09-05 10:36-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: Did you forget to attach that tarball? Anyhow, it did not make it here, and I am still most interested in those results. Hi Arjen: Sorry for that noise. It turns out that tarball did make it here, and the partial results (including a build

Re: [Plplot-devel] Missing pyqtconfig module issue should now be fixed

2017-09-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Arjen: On 2017-09-05 13:41- Arjen Markus wrote: -Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2017 4:47 AM To: Arjen Markus; PLplot development list Subject: Missing pyqtconfig module issue should now be fixed Hi Arjen

[Plplot-devel] Missing pyqtconfig module issue should now be fixed

2017-09-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
__ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project

Re: [Plplot-devel] Qt(5) problems

2017-08-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-08-30 16:17- Schwartz, Steven J wrote: Hi Alan, -Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] Sent: 28 August 2017 22:39 To: Ole Streicher <debian-de...@liska.ath.cx> Cc: plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel

Re: [Plplot-devel] Is it time to remove our old fortran and our old Tcl bindings and examples?

2017-08-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
to plplot-general. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors

Re: [Plplot-devel] This next release cycle should finish in early 2018

2017-08-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-08-29 11:44+0200 Ole Streicher wrote: Hi Alan, On 28.08.2017 00:13, Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2017-08-27 11:00+0200 Ole Streicher wrote: One point there however remains: I need to support all Python 3 versions we have in Debian; currently Python 3.5 and Python 3.6. The difference

[Plplot-devel] Is it time to remove our old fortran and our old Tcl bindings and examples?

2017-08-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
of deleting those old versions. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors

[Plplot-devel] Removal of our file support (consisting mostly of test examples in examples/perl) for the external PDL::Graphics::PLplot project?

2017-08-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
from plplot-5.13.0 (either from the release tarball or from that tag on our master branch) if he so desires. Accordingly, I plan to make this move in a couple of days unless I hear any strong objections here. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation

Re: [Plplot-devel] Qt(5) problems

2017-08-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time

Re: [Plplot-devel] Qt(5) problems

2017-08-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
o see what is going on with your X server and interactive tests of PLplot. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state imp

[Plplot-devel] git blog

2017-08-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
rocedure for publishing my plplot-5.13.1 tag (and presumably its immediate parents)? Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of

[Plplot-devel] Deprecate plshade1?

2017-08-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
to plshade. Therefore, unless one of you has a strong objection, I plan to remove plshade1 entirely from Ada and deprecate its use in C starting in a couple of days. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University

Re: [Plplot-devel] On-going Windows testing, and our Wiki summary of it

2017-08-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
? If the latter, I will try to honor that by not saying much more about testing until substantially later in this release cycle. But I hope a steady but slow testing pace is possible for you right now instead for the reasons stated above. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical

[Plplot-devel] On-going Windows testing, and our Wiki summary of it

2017-08-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-08-25 23:34-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: Arjen: Your comprehensive tests on MinGW-w64/MSYS2, Cygwin, and MSVC (+ Unix tools to help with testing) are really important since they are fundamental to improving our build system for those platforms. Nevertheless, because 5.13.0 was late we

Re: [Plplot-devel] This next release cycle should finish in early 2018

2017-08-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-08-26 13:15-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...] Plplot continues to work fine for python2 aside from the relatively rare corruption issue for bindings/python/Plframe.pyc [... which will likely go away once I figure out how to move to a single name-spaced import of PLframe. Hi Ole

Re: [Plplot-devel] This next release cycle should finish in early 2018

2017-08-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
istics. Best wishes, Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (f

Re: [Plplot-devel] This next release cycle should finish in early 2018

2017-08-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-08-26 14:36+0200 Ole Streicher wrote: On 26.08.2017 12:43, Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...] This simply means you need to install the python3-numpy package (to be consistent with the above python3), and all should be well. Thanks With installing python3-numpy as well, it works. I didn't

Re: [Plplot-devel] This next release cycle should finish in early 2018

2017-08-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-08-26 02:26-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2017-08-26 11:12+0200 Ole Streicher wrote: Hi Alan, "Alan W. Irwin" <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> writes: The 5.13.0 release has now been completed. (See my recent post to plplot-general for links to the details). I enco

Re: [Plplot-devel] This next release cycle should finish in early 2018

2017-08-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-08-26 11:12+0200 Ole Streicher wrote: Hi Alan, "Alan W. Irwin" <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> writes: The 5.13.0 release has now been completed. (See my recent post to plplot-general for links to the details). I encourage all of you to test the website (I already

[Plplot-devel] This next release cycle should finish in early 2018

2017-08-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
! Therefore, during this release cycle I hope to work steadily through at least a substantial fraction of these issues. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Prog

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of the 5.13.0 release process

2017-08-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
for this platform.) The release process is still-ongoing and the hard freeze for pushing of commits to our master branch continues. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca

[Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0 -- Evaluation of rendering issues on MinGW-w64/MSYS2

2017-08-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
above with "NOTE:" where I believe there is a PLplot issues we can do something about after the 5.13.0 release. The rest of the rendering issues I noticed are discussed above, but in all those cases I believe the issue is with external libraries on this platform and not issues with PLplot. Al

[Plplot-devel] Status of the 5.13.0 release process

2017-08-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ues. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time E

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0

2017-08-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0

2017-08-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
much looking forward to releasing 5.13.0 on or before Tuesday, August 22nd 16:00 UTC. Thanks once again for all your testing and other help that has made the PLplot-5.13.0 release so much better than it would have been otherwise. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0

2017-08-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
with no issues, but I need those results plus a lot more from the rest of the noninteractive devices that you teste.) So please follow the exact directions below. On 2017-08-08 11:16-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...R]un this noninteractive comprehensive test again, but with these additional options

Re: [Plplot-devel] Solar eclipse coming for North America in 4 days!

2017-08-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
to be "the" lucky total solar eclipse location for quite some time before some other point on Earth inherits that designation. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.ph

Re: [Plplot-devel] Solar eclipse coming for North America in 4 days!

2017-08-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
e. Happy viewing All excellent points. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stel

[Plplot-devel] Solar eclipse coming for North America in 4 days!

2017-08-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
imness of the daylight when looking out the window at the right time that day. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of

[Plplot-devel] A new interactive "iup" device based on the IUP library?

2017-08-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
uld certainly encourage that effort. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (fre

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0

2017-08-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
timeout from 1500 seconds to 15000 seconds. So please run this test again with the above platform install issues fixed (other than perl.exe and git.exe which I have presumed you want to put off dealing with until post-release) and using this latest commit. Alan __ Alan W. Ir

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0

2017-08-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-08-15 12:19-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2017-08-15 11:03- Arjen Markus wrote: -Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 12:42 PM To: Arjen Markus Cc: PLplot development list Subject: RE: [Plplot-devel

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0

2017-08-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-08-15 11:03- Arjen Markus wrote: -Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 12:42 PM To: Arjen Markus Cc: PLplot development list Subject: RE: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0 On 2017-08-15 08:03

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0

2017-08-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
and the ideas in my previous post are a significant help to you but if not, a few days break might clear your mind sufficiently so you quickly spot what is wrong with your automatic install once you look at it again. Best wishes, Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0

2017-08-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-08-15 07:11- Arjen Markus wrote: Hi Alan, -Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] Sent: Friday, August 11, 2017 6:33 PM Once you perform (1), (2'), and (3), I should have two report tarballs to look at as well as one ~62MB tarball

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0

2017-08-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-08-14 02:11-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: The other uncertainty (other than how much time you have for testing this week) in the release schedule is I still have a set of wxwidgets issues remaining here which is the uninitialized variable in the wxwidgets superscript/subscript logic

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0 - findings regarding Cygwin

2017-08-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
debug output to me to see if I can use that information to help you out. But I emphasize again, all the above ideas are for after your completion of the noninteractive tests. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astrono

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0 - findings regarding Cygwin

2017-08-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
or link issues) don't affect noninteractive tests. But right after that (still Tuesday, I hope), you should run cmake with the --debug-output and --trace options to help you to locate and fix the source of this wxwidgets find issue very quickly. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0 - findings regarding Cygwin

2017-08-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
noninteractive comprehensive test for MinGW-w64/MSYS2, and deal with this Cygwin wxwidgets issue later (or even post-release since interactive testing on Cygwin is so slow compared to your other platforms). Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0

2017-08-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-08-14 06:50- Arjen Markus wrote: Hi Alan, -Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] Sent: Friday, August 11, 2017 6:33 PM Thanks for the reminder (on the MSYS2 list) that our build system automatically drops pyqt4 without any build error

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0 - findings regarding Cygwin

2017-08-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
(which doesn't work for multiple versions like you had installed) and use the FindwxWidgets.cmake version check instead. But for now, you can work around the problem (as you have stated above) by installing 3.0 only, Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affilia

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0

2017-08-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-08-09 12:06-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2017-08-09 10:46- Arjen Markus wrote: Hi Alan, My apologises - I thought I had selected the right one. Here is the correct tarball. More comments below. Hi Arjen: I have now looked at what you sent me

[Plplot-devel] Finding the sip system directory and sip command flags for PyQt4 and PyQt5

2017-08-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
leased, and to remind me of that possibility I have summarized what needs to be done in my post-5.13.0 ToDo list. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming a

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0

2017-08-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
comprehensive test I suggested where you collect the ~62MB of plot results in a tarball and post that tarball somewhere I can download it for my viewing pleasure (hah). Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0

2017-08-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-08-09 10:46- Arjen Markus wrote: -Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2017 10:51 AM That is a report for Cygwin which you apparently ran on 2017-08-07, but which you have not described yet. Is that the one

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0

2017-08-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-08-09 06:54- Arjen Markus wrote: Hi Alan, -Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2017 8:16 PM Hi Arjen: IMPORTANT. Could I please see the full report tarball of this test which you forgot to attach to your

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0

2017-08-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
eyeballs have not fallen out and I have not died from boredom due to this task, I would likely be willing to repeat this task twice more when you finish off the noninteractive testing on the Cygwin and MSVC platforms. :-) ) Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical researc

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0

2017-08-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-08-08 09:57- Arjen Markus wrote: Hi Alan, -Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2017 11:46 AM So if you use make -j8 (or so) and ctest -j8 for your comprehensive test it will really go ~4 times faster

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0

2017-08-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-08-08 08:44- Arjen Markus wrote: Hi Alan, -Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2017 1:59 AM As the full run takes half a day [...] The fairly equivalent test here (although I test substantially more

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0

2017-08-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
g, install all of diffutils, git, and mingw-w64-x86_64-python3-sip, and start the test again from scratch. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with t

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0

2017-08-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-08-04 00:51-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: The current status is I am almost done with the implementation of that fix [for the bad address issue], but I need to get some sleep before I finish, test, and commit it (likely by late Friday my time or early Saturday your time). OK. Finally

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0

2017-08-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-08-03 11:56-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: But assuming (now that both PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH are set properly and you are using an unambiguous make command of the correct form for MinGW-w64/MSYS2) you can replicate by hand this way, can you replicate in even a simpler way by running

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0

2017-08-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-08-02 19:36- Arjen Markus wrote: -Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2017 9:57 AM ... 1. If you get good results in the Cygwin case, but not the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 case, then that is pretty good evidence

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0

2017-08-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-08-02 07:07- Arjen Markus wrote: [...] -Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2017 9:57 AM ... Using that option [-DNON_TRANSITIVE=ON], the final command is shorter, but still 1200+ characters. And, more

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0 --Cygwin Ada issue

2017-08-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
-Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2017 5:02 AM To: Arjen Markus Cc: PLplot development list Subject: Planning for the release of 5.13.0 --Cygwin Ada issue On 2017-07-31 07:13- Arjen Markus wrote: Here are some

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0

2017-08-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
or the noninteractive MinGW-w64/MSYS2 case as well as the results of the above simple tests for the attached Makefile Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Progra

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0 non-Ada Cygwin issues

2017-08-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
we should be back to where we were in December. And we might even do better than that if my new idea for working with the Ada issue works, and/or if you have time to try interactive testing of wxwidgets alone for Cygwin. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research a

Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0 non-Ada Cygwin issues

2017-07-31 Thread Alan W. Irwin
chips making it more difficult for that reduced air flow to cool them) and also run a memory checker (such as memtest86+ <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memtest86>) to detect any memory modules that need to be replaced. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research af

[Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0 --Cygwin Ada issue

2017-07-31 Thread Alan W. Irwin
o your Ada Cygwin report. I will wait until later to respond to your other two reports (with appropriatly modified subject lines) to keep the size of each e-mail reasonable. -Original Message----- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 1:43 AM

[Plplot-devel] Extensive testing of PLplot completed successfully for CMake-3.9.0

2017-07-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
with that test so others should feel reasonably confident about using CMake-3.9.0 to build and test PLplot as well. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming

Re: [Plplot-devel] Install location logic substantially updated

2017-07-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-07-22 01:59-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...] The above commit was rather intrusive so I gave it a complete noninteractive and interactive comprehensive test which passed with only minor dashboard submission issues (see the commit message for commit 62e07d4 for the details) which I have

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