From: Hazen B. <hba...@ma...> - 2009-09-04 18:39:52
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Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2009-09-03 10:20-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > >> Here are those issues again: >> >> (1) The above command-line parsing issue. The valgrind investigations I >> suggested for this case may allow you to find the reason for this error and >> fix it in a relatively small amount of time. Do you have time to work on >> this before the weekend of September 12th/13th? >> >> (2) plend/qt segfaults on some platforms. This one is still pretty open >> ended, but Alban appears to be actively investigating it so he might >> well benefit by a week's delay in the release. >> >> (3) plend/xcairo segfaults on all (?) platforms. Certainly, I see this >> issue on my platform. Hez, are you working on this one? >> >> (4) locale/qt issue which have not been fixed in the best way, yet, IMO. >> I believe we can find the right solution before September 12th/13th. >> > > Thanks to Hazen and Hez for responding to my question. > > With regard to (1) it would be nice for Hazen to deal with this before the > release (with gdb following Hez's suggestion about specifying command-line > options to the gdb run command), but it appears to be an isolated problem > and therefore not release critical. > > With regard to (2) from Alban's continuing experiments and especially from > the good results he gets if he builds Qt4 himself, it is beginning to look > like this test_plend issue is due to a distro packaging issue for Qt4 rather > than anything wrong with our qt device driver. > > With regard to (3) nobody appears to be working on this issue at the moment, > but (a) it might well take quite a while to fix it or (b) it might be an > external library logic or building error which we could do nothing about > (except file a bug report). > > With regard to (4) I think I am finally on the right track (see my response > to Arjen's comments about LC_NUMERIC) so I hope to finish that today. > > So I now agree with Hazen and Hez we could/should release either tomorrow or > Sunday. > > Hazen, please let us know on list the day you plan to do the release this > weekend once you have finalized a convenient time to do that. I'll release on Sunday. I'll look at issue (1) tomorrow and see how it goes. -Hazen |