From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2003-04-21 23:25:32
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Rafael made a tarball available at http://people.debian.org/~rafael/plplot.html, tagged cvs, and uploaded the pre-built documentation to our web site around noon. I have been working on the release (mostly testing, but also documenting what I am doing for Rafael's future reference) ever since. I have perhaps another hour's worth of testing to go before I do the file release at sourceforge. The ascii release announcement is done, but I expect it will take me several more hours beyond that to put in into html form and onto our website. So I will probably be working after dinner tonight, but that is fine; it will be a great relief to get this sucker finished completely today (Monday). Geoffrey and Maurice: give me some warning if you are really going to try and test Solaris today so I can "hold the presses" on the announcement for you. If I don't here from you I will go with what we have. 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). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ |
From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2003-04-22 01:41:40
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On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > [...]I have perhaps another hour's worth > of testing to go before I do the file release at sourceforge. It passed my much reduced (since I am now just "one of the boys" and relying on the rest of you to do similar tests on your own platforms) tests this time. For Debian woody plplot-test.sh worked for all devices without any obvious errors, but I only spot-checked the results (didn't have time to look at 356 [!] pages for each device, and I believe Joao has already done that for some of the devices). Interactive tcl/tk tests and a few specific interactive device tests also passed. Comparison with the make_tarball.sh result was good (some extra files in the official tarball we can get rid of next time, hopefully, but none missing which is the main thing). The SF file release is completed. ascii-to-html transformation of announcement still needs to be done tonight, but after that I really do have to quit PLplot work for a while. I am collaborating with others on a research paper that must be finished by June. After that there is another one-month intense Fortran contract I have agreed to do. In July though, I hope to develop some neat new generalized PLplot 3D API (more complete passing of 3D information to our existing routines) that I need for my research. Because of these time constraints I ask Rafael to immediately take over as the new release manager and publicize all our hard work for this release wherever he feels is appropriate. (I will be making some private suggestions to him about what is possible contained in the "Release Manager" notes I will be giving him.) 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). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ |