Re: [Plplot-devel] Fedora package status

[Andrew R. <and...@us...>]

Orion,

Just to say thanks for your package efforts. Getting plplot into the
main distributions is an important part of getting plplot a wider user
base. 

Please keep us posted on the ocaml front. I've not (yet) tried building
ocaml bindings for Debian. As you commented, with all the different
drivers and bindings this is a severe test for any packager! I've
encountered similar problems with ada on some architectures with Debian. 

PDL is maintained separately from plplot. We know this needs some
updating and (hopefully!) it is underway. 

If there is anything we can do to share experience packaging for
different distributions, then just let me know.

Andrew

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 09:25:14PM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Here's what's up:
> 
> Just built svn revision 8752 for Fedora Rawhide.  Fedora will be 
> entering "Feature freeze" on Tuesday the 9th.  After this, only bug 
> fixes really should go in until the final freeze in October.  F10 should 
> be released in November, at which point updates can be made available as 
> well.  Schedule is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Schedule
> 
> You can find the logs for the builds here, if anyone is interested:
> 
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=809873
> 
> Issues:
> 
> - ocaml example 9 crashes on ppc/ppc64.  This seems to be an ocaml issue 
> rather than a plplot issue and hopefully we'll (the Fedora ocaml/ppc 
> guys and me) will get it sorted out.
> 
> - One of the perl checks fails due to an apparent PDL/perl 5.10 issue. 
> I filed a bug a while back with PDL, but no real action.
> 
> Otherwise no real issues that I know of.  Please install and test when 
> the F10 beta comes out (9/23 target) if you are so inclined.
> 
> Let me know if any particular svn revisions should get pushed into F10 
> before release.  Otherwise I'm going to leave it for a while.  This has 
> got to be one of the more trying packages to maintain because of all of 
> the dependencies.  If anyone would like to join the Fedora project and 
> help me maintain plplot, that would be great.
> 
> - Orion
> 
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