Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.6.0 final version

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

Koen, I am going to quote part of your off-list e-mail to me to the list
because it is highly relevant to Hazen's timing for the release.  There is
as well an important release-related question for Arjen below.

On 2006-05-02 06:26-0400 Koen van der Drift wrote:

> I think I have solved the problem. It turned out that the fink package for 
> python installed libpython* in sw/lib/python2.4/libpython2.4/config/ (not 
> sure why the maintainer decided to do that).

Neither am I.  Also, it is pretty clear he did that in a non-standard way so
that the distutils information we use to determine the default python
configure is compromised. I believe that incorrect distutils information is
a fink python bug which will confuse a lot of python developers on fink.

> I have hadded that path to the 
> LDFlags, and now plplot finds all the python files and builds with python 
> enabled.

Excellent news!

Since you have found a workaround for the build, I think this is no longer
a release issue.

That only appears to leave one possible release-critical issue for your fink
platform. Could you please try running all the installed examples (python
should be included automatically if it was part of the build) to see whether
they actually work?

Assuming Koen has no trouble running the installed examples, it looks like
the only issue holding up the release will be the DLL trouble that Arjen has
recently discovered on the Cygwin platform. Arjen, in the interests of
getting out the release in a timely manner would you be willing to simply
install (or update to) the modern Cygwin X package that now seems to be
required?  If that solves all your PLplot issues, we can certainly wait
until after the release to make additional tests of why you now need that
extra DLL.

Alan
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