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 the

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 of a

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
ug Good luck, and I look forward to your next report for 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,

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

2017-08-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ove warning actually works, 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

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

2017-07-31 Thread Alan W. Irwin
insulates 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

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

2017-07-31 Thread Alan W. Irwin
nse to 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:

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

2017-07-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
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

[Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0

2017-07-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
I feel comfortable about declaring the soft freeze. Also, I am pretty sure the release will be in August, but I cannot be more definite than that right now until Arjen figures out the causes of those two testing regressions. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research aff

[Plplot-devel] PLplot Debian package -- spelling issues fixed

2017-07-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
have very much appreciated your input and help (especially with the nn and csa licensing issues), and I look forward to more input from you once you have had a chance to package the git master branch of PLplot that is soon going to lead to the release of 5.13.0. Best wishes, Alan

Re: [Plplot-devel] Third proof of concept for the "exception handling" topic -- Further discussion

2017-07-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Phil: On 2017-07-23 22:00+0100 Phil Rosenberg wrote: On 23 July 2017 at 12:27, Alan W. Irwin wrote: I suggested in my big e-mail to you early this week (Mon, 17 Jul 2017 14:59:00 -0700 (PDT)) concerning your second iteration a method of doing this using a list of plstream heap pointers

Re: [Plplot-devel] Third proof of concept for the "exception handling" topic -- Further discussion

2017-07-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-07-23 06:00-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: P.P.S. As I am just discovering, one of the huge problems in this field is terminology. For example, the wikipedia article <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_stack> refers immediately to 6 synomyms (ouch!) for call stack with one of those

Re: [Plplot-devel] Third proof of concept for the "exception handling" topic -- Further discussion

2017-07-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
needs to be applied to my just-previous discussion of other topics related to PLTHROW, PLTRY, and PLCATCH. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affilia

[Plplot-devel] Third proof of concept for the "exception handling" topic -- Further discussion

2017-07-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
nd this is already a pretty long e-mail so I will leave it to you to decide on the above topics unless someone else here wants to comment. Anyhow, after I get some sleep, I am looking forward to your further comments on (a) my error report for interation 3, and (b) what I have had the energy

[Plplot-devel] Third proof of concept for the "exception handling" topic

2017-07-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
you to respond to as well so I will place my further response to your additional remarks in a separate e-mail. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Progra

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

2017-07-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
t you off until post-release unless you have found something absolutely release critical) as we move closer to the release. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Prog

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

2017-07-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
g team for PLplot, and we can take it from there. 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.

[Plplot-devel] Install location logic substantially updated

2017-07-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
elling issues reported by lint (and you) that I need to answer, but can you recall any further topic between us that I still need to answer? Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (a

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot Debian package (debian patch for toggle_plplot_use.m)

2017-07-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
So I suspect when Rafael implemented this patch years ago, he never tested it, and I guess the Debian users of this package never tried the toggle_plplot_use command either (or gave up on it when it immediately errored out as above). Anyhow, Ole, if you can replicate the above tests (both without and

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot Debian package

2017-07-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
build system does not find libshp.so (or libshp.a) in which case the PLplot core library map capability falls back to a much less useful and therefore deprecated map format. So that is a situation to be avoided by installing libshp whenever possible. Alan __ Alan W. Irwi

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

2017-07-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
OFF (by default) to demonstrate no major wxwidgets issues for any of those combinations. 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 equ

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot Debian package

2017-07-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
that test verbosely, e.g., make VERBOSE=1 test_diff_psc >& test_diff_psc.out and if that output file still shows some errors for the pure ascii Octave test case, please send it to me. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physic

Re: [Plplot-devel] First proof-of-concept versions of PLplot "memory allocation" and "exception handling" topics

2017-07-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-07-17 14:59-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: With regard to testing the above memory_allocation2, I repeated the same test as before (used the -DVALGRIND_ALL_TESTS=ON cmake option, built the test_c_psc target, and checked for any imperfect valgrind reports). Examples 00 through 07 were fine

Re: [Plplot-devel] First proof-of-concept versions of PLplot "memory allocation" and "exception handling" topics

2017-07-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
h less error prone, but if I am missing something (e.g., that is not possible with any of the propagation methods you had in mind), then the ideal way to demonstrate that is to include an example in your proof-of-concept of propagating a PLplot library error to x00c.c. Alan _

[Plplot-devel] First proof-of-concept versions of PLplot "memory allocation" and "exception handling" topics

2017-07-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
they found PL_IMPLEMENT_EXCEPTION_HANDLING in CMakeCache.txt. And that file includes the self-documentation of each option so it should be obvious to such users that turning that option ON is highly experimental. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliatio

Re: [Plplot-devel] First proof-of-concept step requested to implement PLplot errorhandling

2017-07-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-07-16 00:24+0100 p.d.rosenb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alan Proof of concept was a little more than 20 or so lines 😉 I'll pull out the code I started and check where is stands. Sounds good. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Depar

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot Debian package

2017-07-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-07-15 14:43-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: There is <http://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgabe/1996/12/Plplot/plplot.html>, but that link is now broken, the linux magazin search function cannot find it, I never understood that article because it was written in German, and by now it wo

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot Debian package

2017-07-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-07-15 20:49+0200 Ole Streicher wrote: Hi Alan, On 15.07.2017 20:37, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Sometimes our bindings libraries have the same core name (e.g., wxwidgets, qt) as the device driver, but bindings libraries and device drivers are completely different and there is no chance of a

[Plplot-devel] First proof-of-concept step requested to implement PLplot error handling

2017-07-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
t step in achieving that important PLplot goal. So how about taking that first step now? Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the F

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot Debian package

2017-07-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
raries have the same core name (e.g., wxwidgets, qt) as the device driver, but bindings libraries and device drivers are completely different and there is no chance of a nameclash between them. So there should be no issue of concern in this case. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astron

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot Debian package

2017-07-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
er of UTF-8. 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

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot Debian package

2017-07-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
nning into some "library version" issues (at least in the Octave-4.2 case) that you have also run into in the past. On 2017-07-14 09:40+0200 Ole Streicher wrote: On 13.07.2017 21:49, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Excellent. However, too be sure all is well with Ada and the other computer lang

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot Debian package

2017-07-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-07-13 16:02+0200 Ole Streicher wrote: Dear Alan, On 13.07.2017 11:27, Alan W. Irwin wrote: I already have a few small questions. First language bindings: Currently the following are disabled: ENABLE_ada: OFF ENABLE_d: OFF ENABLE_octave: OFF

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot Debian package

2017-07-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-07-13 09:12+0200 Ole Streicher wrote: Dear Alan and all, On 12.07.2017 23:28, Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2017-07-12 11:00+0200 Ole Streicher wrote: I think we are done here with all the current Debian-related topics, but there will likely be more such topics we need to discuss in the

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot Debian package

2017-07-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
will likely be more such topics we need to discuss in the near future as you continue the process of updating the Debian packaging for PLplot, and as we move closer to the release of 5.13.0. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot Debian package

2017-07-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Ole: Here are my further remarks on a variety of topics relevant to yur packaging effort. The upstream versus Debian topic: On 2017-07-11 13:43-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: I agree this confusion between upstream and Debian is not ideal. However, Debian packaging is important to us since it

Re: [Plplot-devel] Request to update the licensing for our stripped down and substantially modified 2003 versions of nn and csa to your modern licenses for nn and csa

2017-07-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
relevant licensing upgrade. 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 in

Re: [Plplot-devel] The wxwidgets version you use for MSVC - solved (not quite though)

2017-07-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
credit for two public commits this way; your original one and then another separate commit to reverse it. So it is a win-win similar to my forthcoming fix for the above uninitialized variable error. :-) Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Depar

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot Debian package

2017-07-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
hat from you, I will make that proposed change. For the csiro license problem: On 11.07.2017 12:59, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Apparently there is licensing text for the full modern versions of nn and csa at <https://github.com/sakov/nn-c/blob/master/nn/LICENSE> and <https://github.com/sakov/cs

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot Debian package

2017-07-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-07-11 03:59-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...] <https://github.com/sakov/csa-c/blob/master/csa/LICENSE> [...] 1. Identify the modern full csa licensing from the above text. In the following steps I assume you will be able to identify it as a well-known free software license t

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot Debian package

2017-07-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
follow through with the third as well (quoting any part of this e-mail you feel is relevant) that would be even more helpful! In sum, I am looking forward with your help to finishing the above steps to remove completely the licensing uncertainty for these two PLplot libraries. Alan _

Re: [Plplot-devel] The wxwidgets version you use for MSVC

2017-07-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-07-10 11:20-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2017-07-10 11:05- Arjen Markus wrote: [...] As far as I can tell, the build should be picking up everything from the installation and not gather stuff from elsewhere. It is unlikely it is scavenging the MinGW or Cywin installations. Anyway

Re: [Plplot-devel] The wxwidgets version you use for MSVC

2017-07-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
solution to the MSVC link error you discovered. Good luck during this hunt for the solution! Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the

Re: [Plplot-devel] Problems with the "new" wxwidgets device driver and example 14

2017-07-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-07-07 11:22-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...] My feeling is the most likely cause of the current difficulties (both on Linux and Windows) is some interference between the two streams, i.e., this device driver is not currently stream safe. From further evidence it appears that feeling

Re: [Plplot-devel] Problems with the "new" wxwidgets device driver and example 14

2017-07-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
off looking at this until after the current release. 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

[Plplot-devel] Problems with the "new" wxwidgets device driver and example 14

2017-07-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
uot; version of this device or some recently introduced regression. On 2017-07-05 12:21- Arjen Markus wrote: -Original Message----- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2017 12:30 AM To answer your question above, now that you have had this s

Re: [Plplot-devel] Problem with wxWidgets under MinGW-w64/MSYS2

2017-07-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
SINGDLL (since you had visibility issues with just a few symbols and not all of them), but you should double-check as above simply as part of your "due diligence". But ultimately the answer may be to use a different wxwidgets installation, see my question to Phil and Pedro ab

Re: [Plplot-devel] Problem with wxWidgets under MinGW-w64/MSYS2

2017-07-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-07-04 07:03- Arjen Markus wrote: [...] -Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2017 12:30 AM [...] 2. Do a simple test of wxwidgets on MSVC Ah, I tried it yesterday, but my wxWidgets installation was not

Re: [Plplot-devel] Problem with wxWidgets under MinGW-w64/MSYS2

2017-07-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-07-03 18:22- Arjen Markus wrote: -Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2017 11:08 PM After reviewing the code, I spotted a fundamental error in the Windows variant of the three-semaphores case which is that code

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

2017-07-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-07-03 13:54-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: * Completely debug the Windows variant of the 3-semaphores approach to IPC between -dev wxwidgets and wxPLViewer. The status of this project is Arjen and I have gone through a number of iterations of code changes on my part and tests on his part

[Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0

2017-07-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
d immediately to a release. So with some luck and depending on how much time Arjen has for PLplot this month, the phrase "near future" might translate into a July release rather than an August release. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affili

Re: [Plplot-devel] Problem with wxWidgets under MinGW-w64/MSYS2

2017-07-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-06-30 00:24-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2017-06-29 19:52- Arjen Markus wrote: *** PLPLOT WARNING *** wxPLViewer failed to signal it has found the shared memory [on the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platform]. I assume this issue is due to some programming error in my Windows variant of the

Re: [Plplot-devel] Problem with wxWidgets under MinGW-w64/MSYS2

2017-06-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-06-29 19:52- Arjen Markus wrote: Hi Alan, -Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2017 9:44 PM I am now looking forward to your -fabi-version=8 wxwidgets results for MinGW-w64/MSYS2 as well as your wxwidgets

Re: [Plplot-devel] Problem with wxWidgets under MinGW-w64/MSYS2

2017-06-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-06-28 08:01- Arjen Markus wrote: -Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2017 9:48 AM Of course, now that the build issues are fixed, and you found this one run time error, the pessimistic view is there might be

Re: [Plplot-devel] Problem with wxWidgets under MinGW-w64/MSYS2

2017-06-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-06-28 07:00- Arjen Markus wrote: From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2017 3:01 AM [...] When faced with a fatal error like that, google is your friend. It was getting late, my laptop's battery was nearing its limit and I th

Re: [Plplot-devel] Problem with wxWidgets under MinGW-w64/MSYS2

2017-06-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
d don't wait for their comments (if any). 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 inte

Re: [Plplot-devel] Problem with wxWidgets under MinGW-w64/MSYS2

2017-06-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
annot convert" LPCTSTR to LPCWSTR issue works on those platforms. And if for either one you run into a problem with the above declaration of rand_s, I hope you know how to fix it (since I don't). Okay, that is clear enough. I will try this. Thanks! Alan _____

Re: [Plplot-devel] Problem with wxWidgets under MinGW-w64/MSYS2

2017-06-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
orks on those platforms. And if for either one you run into a problem with the above declaration of rand_s, I hope you know how to fix it (since I don't). Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victo

Re: [Plplot-devel] Problem with wxWidgets under MinGW-w64/MSYS2

2017-06-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ns a summary of what is needed in the MSVC case, but your own google searches may find a better reference. And if either or both Phil or Pedro respond to the question above, that should help as well! Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with D

Re: [Plplot-devel] Problem with wxWidgets under MinGW-w64/MSYS2

2017-06-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-06-23 11:12- Arjen Markus wrote: Hi Alan, -Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 1:04 PM Hi Arjen: Thanks very much for that quick turnaround. You're welcome :) I get compile errors as can be se

Re: [Plplot-devel] Problem with wxWidgets under MinGW-w64/MSYS2

2017-06-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-06-23 09:40- Arjen Markus wrote: Hi Alan, -Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 11:03 AM As expected since my changes had nothing to do with the find issue that you discovered and solved a couple of days

Re: [Plplot-devel] Problem with wxWidgets under MinGW-w64/MSYS2

2017-06-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Arjen: On 2017-06-23 06:55- Arjen Markus wrote: [...] -Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 3:02 AM To Arjen and Phil: I have now made these 4 additional wxwidgets-related commits: 2bc0626 IPC for wxwidgets

Re: [Plplot-devel] Pause behavior while minimized

2017-06-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
alternative seems the correct choice to me. 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

Re: [Plplot-devel] Problem with wxWidgets under MinGW-w64/MSYS2

2017-06-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-06-20 11:36-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: Also now that I have finally found a partner who is willing to test the wxwidgets IPC methods on a native Windows platform, I have a number of IPC build system and code changes in mind. If you have looked at the code at all now, you can see it is a

Re: [Plplot-devel] Problem with wxWidgets under MinGW-w64/MSYS2

2017-06-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ell. More later... 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] Problem with wxWidgets under MinGW-w64/MSYS2

2017-06-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
So if you don't beat me to a solution, I will take a look at finding this Windows build fix for wxwidgets starting ~8 hours or so from now after I get some sleep. Best wishes, Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics an

Re: [Plplot-devel] PyQt4 on MinGw-w64/MSYS2 - pyqtconfig

2017-06-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-06-02 11:46-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2017-06-02 11:52-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: On 06/02/2017 08:40 AM, Arjen Markus wrote: Hi everyone, I have a simple question regarding PyQt4 on MinGW-w64/MSYS2. I have installed the package but when I run Cmake to build PLplot, I get the

Re: [Plplot-devel] PyQt4 on MinGw-w64/MSYS2 - pyqtconfig

2017-06-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
letely automatic way. 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.

[Plplot-devel] Substantial OCaml improvement

2017-05-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
tried and failed at this previously due to lack of experience with OCaml. I have that same problem so we will see how far I get. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
MinGW-w64/MSYS2 and MSVC (once the non-spaced comprehensive tests are working well on those platforms). However, I am still working on some remaining noninteractive "space" issues (e.g., an OCaml issue for the static case, and language support issues for the Ada and D compilers), and I haven&

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-05-09 11:31- Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > > > >> -Original Message----- >> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] >> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2017 7:18 PM >> >> Assuming the form I suggested on Cygwin >> >> cm

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-05-09 09:42- Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > >> -Original Message----- >> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] >> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2017 9:50 AM >> >> Hi Arjen: >> >> The diff executable from the MinGW-w64/MS

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
me the relevant report tarball. 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

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ogress on this platform as well. For all three Windows platforms I look forward to your commits solving the straightforward issues that you find and I assume the problem above is of that type. However, if this or some other issue is tricky for you to solve, feel free to consult in detail with m

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
stalled driver location on the PATH. But I hasten to add this PATH change should only be done when the install tree is being tested, and otherwise (e.g., when testing the build tree) the installation location for the drivers should be removed from the PATH (as you will see the comprehensive t

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
script so, for example, I am pretty sure the form you tried above would not work on Linux. For that same reason when doing hand experiements like this, it is always a good idea to follow the script (or just use it). Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation wit

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
installation prefix (which is true almost by definition for at least the epa_build case) then sorting out whether the trouble for a given component of PLplot is due to an issue with our build system or the external software component for the platform should be completely straightforward. Al

Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-05-03 20:29-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2017-05-03 00:42-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > >> []It turns out there >> are 4 kinds of these type of issues where the spaces(s) occur in the >> full pathname of (1) the source tree, (2), the build tree, (3), the >

[Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

2017-05-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-05-03 00:42-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > []It turns out there > are 4 kinds of these type of issues where the spaces(s) occur in the > full pathname of (1) the source tree, (2), the build tree, (3), the > install tree, and (4) the system libraries and executables that P

Re: [Plplot-devel] Python3

2017-04-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-04-22 17:55-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > On 04/21/2017 03:42 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> >> Hi Hazen: >> >> Could you please test commit 578b028? [...] > It works for me with Python3 and pyqt5. Hi Hazen: That positive test result on your Linux plat

[Plplot-devel] [ANNOUNCEMENT] The minumum version of CMake we accept on Linux is now bumped from 3.0.2 to 3.6.2

2017-04-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
hat is temporarily affected by this issue, you will have to build the latest CMake (currently 3.8.0 which builds PLplot without difficulties) before building the git version of PLplot. So the purpose of this announcement is to warn users about this uncommon possibility. Alan __

[Plplot-devel] Python3

2017-04-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-04-17 16:30-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Note also that there are additional non-standard Python examples in > the examples/python subdirectory so those should all be checked to > make sure they work with both Python 2 and Python 3. And similarly > for the pyqt4 and py

Re: [Plplot-devel] Replace "f95" and "F95" by "fortran" and "Fortran"

2017-04-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-04-19 14:50-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > DONE as of commit e233697. I did a lot of testing of this large and > intrusive change (see details in the commit message) on my Debian Jessie > platform but additional testing is requested on other platforms as > well. By the way,

Re: [Plplot-devel] Replace "f95" and "F95" by "fortran" and "Fortran"

2017-04-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-04-18 12:19-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2017-04-18 07:05- Arjen Markus wrote: > >> [...] I agree, as per your later post (got caught by the spam filter for > reasons best known to itself), that "f95" is not the correct keyword > anymore. So that i

[Plplot-devel] Replace "f95" and "F95" by "fortran" and "Fortran"

2017-04-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
d active) and several other tests of this intrusive change I have in mind before I make the commit and push it. Thus, because the tests will take a lot of time, you will probably only see that push much later today or early tomorrow. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical res

Re: [Plplot-devel] A mysterious pyc file corruption issue

2017-04-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-04-17 16:30-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > I feel it is important to get back to Python 2 PostScript difference > perfection and to also achieve that perfection for Python 3. I now (commit 9185cce) have achieved perfect PostScript difference reports for both Python 2 and Python 3.

Re: [Plplot-devel] A mysterious pyc file corruption issue

2017-04-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-04-17 16:30-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > [T]here are now PostScript consistency issues _both_ for Python 2 and > Python 3 results that were not there before for Python 2 before your > push. > > python (2) > Missing examples: > Differing graphical outp

Re: [Plplot-devel] A mysterious pyc file corruption issue

2017-04-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-04-16 16:55-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > On 02/21/2017 09:26 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> >> I have now been in contact with the OP, Barry Warsaw of python.org, of >> that thread who was quite helpful. For example, Barry told me that >> Python is designed so i

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fortran standard compliance checking does not work for gfortran

2017-04-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-04-14 20:54-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > To summarize, if you discovered a standards-compliant change > to our new Fortran binding implementation that would allow use of > > export FFLAGS='-O3 -std=f2003 -pedantic -Wall -Wextra' > > with gfortran, then that woul

[Plplot-devel] Fortran standard compliance checking does not work for gfortran

2017-04-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ownside of the current recommendation is it means our users/developers cannot check Fortran standards compliance with gfortran and must rely on NAG instead for such checking. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and A

Re: [Plplot-devel] The status of the wxwidgets IPC development

2017-03-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-03-30 14:00-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > [] The > commit [25d120e] message indicates the comprehensive test script options that > should be used to do the requested testing [of wxwidgets]. P.S. Those options included -DPLPLOT_WX_DEBUG_OUTPUT=ON -DPLPLOT_WX_NANOSEC=ON. The

Re: [Plplot-devel] The status of the wxwidgets IPC development

2017-03-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
nvironment variables to access Cygwin or MinGW-w64/MSYS2 unix functionality such as bash.exe). But so far, nobody has figured out exactly how to do that so you may be limited to just hand testing of -dev wxwidgets on MSVC. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affili

Re: [Plplot-devel] The status of the wxwidgets IPC development

2017-03-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-03-09 23:07-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...] > In sum, I believe we need to make the two improvements above (solve > the wxPLViewer order of magnitude inefficiency issue and display > wxPLViewer plots immediately for each part of plbuf that is received) > before we can ge

Re: [Plplot-devel] The status of the wxwidgets IPC development

2017-03-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
To Phil and Pedro: On 2017-03-09 23:07-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...] > Unnamed POSIX semaphores are known not to work on Mac OS X (and likely > a number of other proprietary Unices) and Windows. Thus, for the > -DPL_WXWIDGETS_IPC3=ON case I plan to implement a CMake test that will &g

Re: [Plplot-devel] Best git version for Windows?

2017-03-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-03-10 11:02-0500 Jim Dishaw wrote: > >> On Feb 21, 2017, at 4:45 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> >> @Jim, Phil, and Arjen: >> >> I used the git SF server just this morning with no issues. Also, for >> the reasons discussed in README.developers

Re: [Plplot-devel] The status of the wxwidgets IPC development

2017-03-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
es to render the plot for partial plbuf results before -dev wxwidgets finishes sending the complete plbuf. So at least part of the fix here is to redesign wxPLViewer to allow rendering of partial plbuf results. (See discussion above concerning two other benefits of that approach.) A

Re: [Plplot-devel] The status of the wxwidgets IPC development

2017-03-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-02-28 12:19-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2017-02-27 15:34-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...] > My remaining plans for the -DPL_WXWIDGETS_IPC2=ON case are as follows: > > 1. Implement interactivity so that C example 1 works with -locate mode > and C example 20 works. > &g

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