From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2001-06-14 23:55:27
|
PLplot is still grindly relentlessly toward world domination....;-) What: PLplot 5.0.4 release (as a tarball---rpm's and deb's to come) Where: http://sourceforge.net/projects/plplot (click on file releases). When: Now Why: Bug fixing and new features (especially portrait mode) Who: Alan, Andrew, Geoffrey, Jo=E3o, Maurice, Rafael, and Vince Important Changes:=20 (1) Default orientation for the ljii, ljiip, psc, ps, and pstex drivers has been rotated from seascape (upside-down landscape) by 180 deg to landscape. With this change no special 180 deg latex rotations will be required to get true landscape mode (top of the plot on the left of the page as opposed to on the right of the page for seascape mode). If you still require seascape for some reason for these drivers, use the -ori 2. command-line option or else use plsdiori(2.) or plsetopt("ori", "2."). (2) The installation location for examples has been changed to $prefix/lib/plplot<ver>/examples to be in better conformance with the FHS. Important Bug fixes: (1) Many improvements to the octave front end. (2) Many improvements to the xfig driver. (3) If the overall aspect ratio is changed by the -geometry, -a, or -portra= it options or else by the combination of the -ori 1 and -freeaspect options, t= he character aspect ratio remains unaffected. For example, when the overall aspect ratio is changed now, circular symbols remain circular rather than turning into ellipses as in the old code. (4) Software pattern fills now rotate correctly with the rest of the plot when the -ori option is used. This fix affects all drivers (e.g., xwin, psc) which do not handle their own pattern fills. (Previously the rotation angle for software pattern fills was mistakenly doubled by two calls to the orientation transformation routine.) Important New Features: (1) Portrait mode. Use the -portrait option on the command line or else plsetopt("portrait", "") to get this option which only currently affects th= e ljii, ljiip, ps, psc, and pstex drivers. This option is especially useful for yplot, the yorick front-end to PLplot. yplot previously maintained separate (=3D=3D> hard-to-maintain and buggy) portrait versions of the psc,= ps, and ljiip drivers. Those will no longer be necessary with this PLplot core change, and in fact portrait mode is now available for a much wider range of drivers. (2) -drvopt command-line option (or else use plsetopt("drvopt","option")). This allows setting options for particular drivers. For example, the -drvopt text option for the psc or ps driver allows use of Adobe fonts (Thi= s is poorly documented currently, but for now see notes in ps.c for more details). (3) New pstex driver. This is not currently documented, but there is post from Jo=E3o Cardoso on plplot_devel (http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/10834/2001/4/50/5536095/) that gives the recipe (ignore the configuration stuff and start with the ./x01c command). The idea is to emulate the pstex output of the xfig application so that latex can be used to directly process the file output from the PLplot pstex driver. Tests Performed for this Release: The testing this time was substantially deeper than before, but not as broad. What I mean by "deeper" is that I did the usual extensive tests of all examples both for the psc and png drivers as well as interactive testin= g using the Tk widget, the gnome driver, etc. In addition, with the portrait mode now available, yplot was fully available for the first time (watch for that release announcement on this list) and was used to generate a large variety of test examples. What I mean by "not as broad" is our range of test platforms was limited this time to just Debian potato, Redhat 6.1, and SuSe 7.0. However, previous releases were tested on a broader range of platforms so we don't anticipate any special platform-dependent problems with this release. General Note: This is probably going to be the last release in the 5.0.x series for PLplot. It is planned that the next release (5.1.0) will have an increased minor number to mark the event of at least two important new features: a whole new automake and libtool configuration scheme which has the potential of much better cross-platform support and drivers which dynamically load as required. These two features have been developed on unstable CVS branches and should be imported to CVS HEAD for stabilization work in the near future. Have fun with this latest stable release of PLplot! Alan W. Irwin email: ir...@be... phone: 250-727-2902=09FAX: 250-721-7715 snail-mail: Dr. Alan W. Irwin Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P6=20 __________________________ Linux-powered astrophysics __________________________ |
From: <jca...@in...> - 2001-06-18 00:15:13
|
On Friday 15 June 2001 00:55, Alan W. Irwin wrote: | PLplot is still grindly relentlessly toward world domination....;-) | | What: PLplot 5.0.4 release (as a tarball---rpm's and deb's to come) | Where: http://sourceforge.net/projects/plplot (click on file | releases). When: Now | Why: Bug fixing and new features (especially portrait mode) | Who: Alan, Andrew, Geoffrey, Jo=E3o, Maurice, Rafael, and Vince Alan, could you please also put the sources in the ftp area? At ftp://plplot.sourceforge.net/pub/plplot/ only the 5.0.0 release is=20 there. Jo=E3o |
From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2001-06-18 00:44:05
|
My understanding is that ftp area will not be supported much longer by sourceforge (for example, new projects don't get one) so I haven't bothered with it for any release I was associated with. In any case I would like to stick strictly to the file release area for thi= s and all future releases made via sourceforge because of its several advantages. It is directly accessible from our project page, it is organized, and there is a possibility of writing release notes (although I haven't done so). Another big advantage is you can keep track of download statistics. For example, the tarballs for 5.0.1, 5.0.2, and 5.0.3, have been downloaded 244, 485, and 881 times. It is early days for the 5.0.4 tarball, which currently stands at 47 downloads, but it would be great to see the downloads approximately double again for that version. Alan email: ir...@be... phone: 250-727-2902=09FAX: 250-721-7715 snail-mail: Dr. Alan W. Irwin Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P6=20 __________________________ Linux-powered astrophysics __________________________ On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Jo=E3o Cardoso wrote: > On Friday 15 June 2001 00:55, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > | PLplot is still grindly relentlessly toward world domination....;-) > | > | What: PLplot 5.0.4 release (as a tarball---rpm's and deb's to come) > | Where: http://sourceforge.net/projects/plplot (click on file > | releases). When: Now > | Why: Bug fixing and new features (especially portrait mode) > | Who: Alan, Andrew, Geoffrey, Jo=E3o, Maurice, Rafael, and Vince >=20 > Alan, could you please also put the sources in the ftp area? > At ftp://plplot.sourceforge.net/pub/plplot/ only the 5.0.0 release is=20 > there. >=20 > Jo=E3o >=20 > _______________________________________________ > Plplot-general mailing list > Plp...@pl... > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general >=20 |