From: Rafael L. <rla...@us...> - 2004-04-26 05:40:06
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[ 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 |
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 |
From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2004-04-26 16:38:25
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Rafael wrote earlier: > > 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. > On 2004-04-26 08:32+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > 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. I think this is an important goal, and I am willing to help, but finding the time is a problem at the moment for me since I am trying to finish off two equation of state (EOS) research projects which are time-consuming of themselves and also involve the required PLplot change (5) below. 5) Add API variations (not backwards incompatible API changes) for plot3d and friends to allow the user to specify non-rectangular limits to the x-y plane that are plotted. My EOS is only valid in a non-rectangular region of the density-temperature plane so that is why this functionality has been on my wish list for such a long time. It's at the limit of my C skills so that is why I have put it off so long, but now I really need it so it is suddenly my top PLplot priority. BTW, this effort is obviously not release critical, and I will be working on it privately, but if I am finished with it before the release date, I will put it in CVS HEAD, and let the rest of you decide whether you want this extension to our present functionality to go into this release or not. 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 affiliations with the PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org), the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net), the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net), and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ |
From: Rafael L. <rla...@us...> - 2004-04-26 23:38:12
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* Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> [2004-04-26 09:31]: > On 2004-04-26 08:32+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > > > 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. > > I think this is an important goal, and I am willing to help, but finding the > time is a problem at the moment for me since I am trying to finish off two > equation of state (EOS) research projects which are time-consuming of > themselves and also involve the required PLplot change (5) below. Indeed, this sounds like an interesting goal. Could you please give an estimate of time of completion? > 5) Add API variations (not backwards incompatible API changes) for plot3d > and friends to allow the user to specify non-rectangular limits to the x-y > plane that are plotted. My EOS is only valid in a non-rectangular region of > the density-temperature plane so that is why this functionality has been on > my wish list for such a long time. It's at the limit of my C skills so > that is why I have put it off so long, but now I really need it so it is > suddenly my top PLplot priority. > > BTW, this effort is obviously not release critical, and I will be working on > it privately, but if I am finished with it before the release date, I will > put it in CVS HEAD, and let the rest of you decide whether you want this > extension to our present functionality to go into this release or not. Okay, I will not count this as a release goal for 5.3.1. If it happens that the API change is done by the time of the release, that would be a nice addition. -- Rafael |
From: Andrew R. <and...@us...> - 2004-04-27 08:18:57
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On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 01:37:17AM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > * Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> [2004-04-26 09:31]: > > > On 2004-04-26 08:32+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > I think this is an important goal, and I am willing to help, but finding the > > time is a problem at the moment for me since I am trying to finish off two > > equation of state (EOS) research projects which are time-consuming of > > themselves and also involve the required PLplot change (5) below. > > Indeed, this sounds like an interesting goal. Could you please give an > estimate of time of completion? This week is bad, but hopefully after that I'll get chance to look at it. Since I don't currently have swig 1.3.21 I may need some help testing the changes. Anyway, hopefully it should be a relatively straightforward task - certainly within the timeframe of the release plan. Before doing too much work on the bindings I'd like to try and finalise what example 22 will consist of. Currently the C and C++ examples differ. Which do people prefer and does anyone have any better suggestions? Cheers Andrew |