Re: [Plplot-devel] Latest comparison results show there is some work to do

[Hazen B. <hba...@ma...>]

Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> The latest comparisons between results for various languages and our C
> results are not as clean as they have been in the recent past.  Here is the
> summary (as given by both ctest in the build tree and "make
> test_noninteractive" in the installed examples tree).
> 
> c++
>    Missing examples            :
>    Differing postscript output :  03 19
>    Missing stdout              :
>    Differing stdout            : 
> f77
>    Missing examples            :
>    Differing postscript output :  03 19
>    Missing stdout              :
>    Differing stdout            : 
> f95
>    Missing examples            :
>    Differing postscript output :  03 19
>    Missing stdout              :
>    Differing stdout            : 
> java
>    Missing examples            :
>    Differing postscript output :  03 16 19
>    Missing stdout              :
>    Differing stdout            : 
> octave
>    Missing examples            :  19
>    Differing postscript output :  03 16
>    Missing stdout              :
>    Differing stdout            : 
> python
>    Missing examples            :
>    Differing postscript output :  03 16 19 29
>    Missing stdout              :
>    Differing stdout            : 
> tcl
>    Missing examples            :
>    Differing postscript output :  03 16 19 21
>    Missing stdout              :
>    Differing stdout            :  21
> perl
>    Missing examples            :
>    Differing postscript output :  03 16 19
>    Missing stdout              :
>    Differing stdout            :  14
> ada
>    Missing examples            :
>    Differing postscript output :  03 16 17 19
>    Missing stdout              :
>    Differing stdout            : 
> adathick
>    Missing examples            :
>    Differing postscript output :  03 16 17 19
>    Missing stdout              :
>    Differing stdout            : 
> ocaml
>    Missing examples            :
>    Differing postscript output :  16 19
>    Missing stdout              :
>    Differing stdout            : 
> lua
>    Missing examples            :
>    Differing postscript output :  03 16 19
>    Missing stdout              :
>    Differing stdout            : 
> d
>    Missing examples            :  14 14a 20 21 22 28 31
>    Differing postscript output :  02 03 12 13 16 17 19
>    Missing stdout              :
>    Differing stdout            :  01
> 
> The principal issues are recent important changes to our API and C examples
> 3, 16, and 19 have not been propagated much (if at all) to our other
> languages yet.  Please do what you can for languages of interest to you to
> help clean this up for our forthcoming release.  Hazen has started on the
> example 16 issues, but help from others will be required for some languages
> (probably at least Ada and OCaml) for example 16, and there is a lot of work
> to be done on examples 3 and 19 for all languages and also many of the
> examples for D.

To be specific, I was hoping to get help with java, octave, perl, ada, 
lua and D.

The python and tcl examples should be up to date. I did notice though, 
at least with the Python examples, that the requested color palettes are 
ignored for the first example. I'm puzzled as to why this is happening 
since the color palette functions are called at more or less the same 
time as they are in the C examples.

-Hazen