Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.9.5 release schedule.

[Andrew R. <and...@us...>]

Hopefully testing will show up any other issues with the various
bindings. It would be nice to finally put to rest the issues
with tcl precision, but that probably depends on Arjen having
time.

Also there is the report that Orion made that plplot does not 
work with the new octave 3.2. Ideally we would fix this too,
but without further information / testing it is not going
to happen in a week. I have not (yet) got octave 3.2 to try
this out on.

Andrew

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:50:10AM +0200, Arjen Markus wrote:
> Hi Hazen,
> 
> in addition to Alan's list there is one issue with the Tcl interface.
> Andrew is looking into it - at least the crash in example 29 has been
> solved, so probably the remaining issue is not a show stopper.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Arjen
> 
> On 2009-08-24 07:23, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> > On 2009-08-23 20:47-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote:
> > 
> >> We have 2-3 weeks until our tentative early September release date. I
> >> believe that everything that we wanted in 5.9.5 is in? Is there anything
> >> outstanding besides the tweaks to the color palette handling?
> > 
> > Here are some comments on the present development issues I am aware of:
> > 
> > * The release showstopper color palette initialization issue has now been
> > fixed (see my last post to the list).
> > 
> > * You have just fixed the superscript/subscript issue for the cairo devices,
> > and I don't think any other devices have such issues other than the font
> > size issue for the pdf device. I believe the pdf device is still considered
> > to be experimental so it would be nice to get that issue fixed before the
> > release, but it is not essential.
> > 
> > * Werner has stated he will be working on device drivers (presumably pdf and
> > wxwidgets) but I don't know how much time he has for that at the moment
> > or how far he has gotten.
> > 
> > * Hez mentioned the off-screen rendering patch in response to your post but
> > didn't give an estimate of how long that would take.  If that turns out to be
> > long, I don't think we should delay the release for it.
> > 
> > * Alban plans to make animated rendering faster for -dev qtwidget and do a
> > final fix of the command-line options for qt_example the next opportunity he
> > has to work on qt.  But that next opportunity is apparently several weeks
> > from now which is clearly too late for this release.  Thus, his planned qt
> > work will presumably be in the release after this present release.
> > 
> > * This week I do have some plans to extend my install tree testing to the
> > build tree, but that is just a matter of convenience and I presume that will
> > not introduce or find any release showstopper issues.
> > 
> > * I also plan to document the new build system for the installed examples,
> > but such work should not introduce any release showstopper issues.
> > 
> > * I have decided to put off the libqsastime enhancements I have discussed
> > before until after this present release since those enhancements are pretty
> > tricky (both in understanding the various time transformations that are
> > implied and actually doing the C coding that will be required to implement
> > them).  Thus, the effort may take several weeks, and I certainly don't want
> > to do it in a rush to meet a release deadline since that is a perfect recipe
> > for introducing bugs.  We certainly have more than enough improvements in
> > svn trunk to justify a development release now without waiting for further
> > development to be completed.
> > 
> > Tomorrow I plan to do comprehensive tests of all three build modes (shared
> > libraries + dynamic devices, shared libraries + static devices, and static
> > libraries and devices) for the Debian stable platform accessible to me, and
> > I suggest others do that as well on all platforms that are accessible to
> > them.  If those tests show no showstopper issues, then I am tentatively
> > thinking that we could do the release next weekend (i.e., either Saturday,
> > September 1st or Sunday September 2nd).
> > 
> > Hazen, in case a release next weekend will not disrupt anyone's development
> > plans, would it be convenient for you to release on one of those days?  Of
> > course, if it is not convenient for you or somebody prefers two weekends
> > from now, that would be okay with me as well.  However, I prefer we not let
> > the timing slide to three weekends from now since I like to stick as closely
> > as possible to release deadlines once they have been stated, and September
> > 15th/16th barely qualifies (if at all) as "early September".
> > 
> > Alan
> > __________________________
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