From: Andrew R. <and...@us...> - 2004-04-26 07:32:21
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The release plan sounds good. It seemed to work quite well last time. I have one more release goal. 4) Decide on examples for the new plvect functions. Adding language bindings and examples for languages other than C / C++ / fortran. Alan volunteered to help me with this some time ago. Cheers Andrew On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 07:38:47AM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > [ N.B.: Cc to Marco Presi and Thomas Duck for the gcw driver, and Doug Hunt > for the Perldl binding. ] > > I think it is time to start the discussion about the next release of PLplot. > Unfortunately, I was almost unavailable during the last month due to a > domestic accident, so progress on my side has been very slow. Also, as I am > trying to catch up with other things, I have a very busy month before me. > Realistically, I think that we can release only by the end of June. Remember > that we will probably need a couple of release cycles before we get the > final tarball. > > I suggest that we proceed like in the last release. Let us discuss now > about possible goals for PLplot-5.3.1 and once we settle to a feasible set > of goals, let us estimate the release date and try to stick to it. > > There are three new developments that I would like to see in 5.3.1 (but > would not really care if they make their way only into 5.3.2, or 5.4.0): > > 1) Finish the Perldl examples. I estimate that I have completed around > 70% of this work. I am also contributing changes to the upstream code > of PerlDL, hoping that there will be a new release of PerlDL soon. > > 2) Integration of Thomas Duck's gcw driver and plplotcanvas widget. I > still do not know how to conciliate this with my old gnome driver. > There is a possibility of keeping both for a while. Thomas' code has > already release-quality and the bulk of the work here would be the > integration into our configuration system. > > 3) Build the info documentation using the new usptream docbook2X package, > which is available in Debian unstable (and hopefully soon in testing, > as I have helped to fix some release critical bugs in this package, see > http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=docbook2x). > > If you have other release goals, please post here. > > A final note: not so unrelated with the release issue is the fact that the > Debian packages for PLplot version 5.3.0.cvs.20040324-2 will soon enter the > testing distribution and will become widely available for tests (see > http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=plplot). This will > undoubtedly help us to improve the quality of PLplot 5.3.1. > > -- > Rafael > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Robotic Monkeys at ThinkGeek > For a limited time only, get FREE Ground shipping on all orders of $35 > or more. Hurry up and shop folks, this offer expires April 30th! > http://www.thinkgeek.com/freeshipping/?cpg=12297 > _______________________________________________ > Plplot-devel mailing list > Plp...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel |