Hi Phil: Since we have been delaying the release for your wxwidgets fix in any case for the last several weeks, I decided to use that time to rewrite the advanced chapter of our DocBook documentation. However, yesterday I finished a particularly tricky section of that (on color management) and there are some more changes I need to do on the 3D plotting section, but that is absolutely all I intend to do on the documentation for this release. I therefore hope to go ahead with this release on Saturday in the interest of (a) getting it off our collective backs, (b) dropping the push freeze so that normal development can continue, and (c) making all the work we have done in this release cycle readily available to our users.
So what progress have you made on the 4 wxwidgets areas you were planning to work on for these last several weeks? Those areas were (in decreasing order of how critical to the release they are) 1. A paragraph in README.release summarizing the wxwidgets changes since PLplot-5.11.1. 2. Adjust the wxwidgets device driver for the wait/eop split in plbuffer that Jim implemented some time ago and circulate that patch. 3. Thorough re-test of wxwidgets using that patch on all platforms (with aid from Pedro and me) and push it if those tests are good. 4. Update our DocBook documentation with regard to wxwidgets. If it turns out you cannot do anything on any of the above in a timely manner because of other time pressures on you, I would strongly prefer to just proceed on Saturday with the release without those wxwidgets issues addressed. Then once you address at least the first three of these, I would be willing to make a PLplot bug-fix release (although there would be some significant git learning on my part required to figure out how to use the required git cherry-pick command.) So unless I hear from you that a few more days delay on the release would be a significant benefit to you, I plan to just go ahead with the release on Saturday. 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 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
