[Plplot-devel] Release planned for Saturday with tarball Rafael made today

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

Geoffrey tells me he was unable to test the RC2 tarball on solaris because a
job crunch suddenly grabbed all his time today. Now, the earliest possible
time for such a solaris test is some time next week.

Rafael has had a sudden change in family vacation plans so he will not be
available on Friday or this weekend to help with the release.  OTOH, he has
already packaged the 5.2.1 tarball (current CVS with version change), and he
believes that is good enough for release if nobody else comes up with any
changes.  By all means give that tarball a test

http://people.debian.org/~rafael/plplot.html

md5sum is edb09c27ae0b977a4994efbe538bbe78

So because he made that tarball it gives us at least the possibility of a
release on Saturday, and I prefer to stick to that schedule since I think it
is better for all of us to get this off our back.  Also, Maurice and Geoffrey
are so busy there is certainly no guarantee they would be able to do any
Solaris testing next week.

So unless somebody finds anything wrong with the above tarball or wants to
get some additional last minute change in, I plan to go ahead Saturday
morning with the official release of the above tarball as scheduled.

Alan

Alan W. Irwin
email: ir...@be...
phone: 250-727-2902

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliation with the PLplot scientific plotting software package
(plplot.org).

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