[Plplot-cvs] SF.net SVN: plplot:[9318] trunk/README.release

[<ai...@us...>]

Revision: 9318
          http://plplot.svn.sourceforge.net/plplot/?rev=9318&view=rev
Author:   airwin
Date:     2009-01-15 20:50:18 +0000 (Thu, 15 Jan 2009)

Log Message:
-----------
Restore release notices that are still relevant.  Some of these important
changes (such as the cmake notice) are permanent, and we will want to
continue to say something about these changes until and including our next
stable release.

The Tk notice has been restored because that problem is on-going. (I have
just confirmed that the Tk examples continue to segfault.)

Modified Paths:
--------------
    trunk/README.release

Modified: trunk/README.release
===================================================================
--- trunk/README.release	2009-01-15 19:13:58 UTC (rev 9317)
+++ trunk/README.release	2009-01-15 20:50:18 UTC (rev 9318)
@@ -14,6 +14,42 @@
 file.
 
 
+Notices for Users.
+
+I. This is the official notice that our deprecated autotools-based build
+system has been removed as of release 5.9.1.  Instead, use the CMake-based
+build system following the directions in the INSTALL file.
+
+II. This is official notice that the tk, itk, and itcl components of PLplot
+have been disabled by default as of 5.9.1.  We reluctantly took this step
+for these venerable PLplot components because we found segfaults with most
+of our Tk-related interactive tests for this release which we have been, as
+yet, unable to address. For now, if you want to try these components of
+PLplot to help us debug the problem, you must specifically use the cmake
+options -DENABLE_tk=ON -DENABLE_itk=ON -DENABLE_itcl=ON to build and install
+these components.
+
+III. This is official notice that we (as of 5.9.1) no longer support
+Octave-2.1.73 which has a variety of run-time issues in our tests of the
+Octave examples on different platforms.  In contrast our tests show we get
+good run-time results with all our Octave examples for Octave-3.0.1. Also,
+that is the recommended stable version of Octave at
+http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html so that is the only version
+of Octave we support at this time.
+
+IV.  This is official notice that the PLplot team have decided (as of
+release 5.9.1) for consistency sake to change the PLplot stream variables
+plsc->vpwxmi, plsc->vpwxma, plsc->vpwymi, and plsc->vpwyma and the results
+returned by plgvpw to reflect the exact window limit values input by users
+using plwind. Previously to this change, the stream variables and the values
+returned by plgvpw reflected the internal slightly expanded range of window
+limits used by PLplot so that the user's specified limits would be on the
+graph.  Two users noted this slight difference, and we agree with them it
+should not be there. Note that internally, PLplot still uses the expanded
+ranges so most users results will be identical.  However, you may notice
+some small changes to your plot results if you use these stream variables
+directly (only possible in C/C++) or use plgvpw.
+
 INDEX
 
 1. Changes relative to PLplot 5.9.1 (the previous development release)


This was sent by the SourceForge.net collaborative development platform, the world's largest Open Source development site.