[Plplot-devel] The test_interactive target is nearly complete

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

The development of the test_interactive target continues and is nearly
complete.

You can run this target using

make test_interactive

(or the nmake equivalent on Windows)

in either the build tree (if BUILD_TEST=ON) or the installed examples tree
with the new CMake-based build system there.

Today (as of revision 10575) I implemented test_pygcw (which is only
generated as a target when ENABLE_pygcw is ON) and did a lot of logic
improvements so that "make test_interactive" and all its dependencies (e.g.,
test_pygcw) work well for both the build tree and the installed examples
tree. I urge everyone to give this target a try on all platforms accessible
to them to make sure there is nothing Linux-specific that I have done, and
also because "make test_interactive" is part of the basic test suite for
PLplot that we will all want to run in preparation for releases.

test_interactive is currently in excellent shape (on Linux at least) and
exercises most of our interactive capabilities.  I do plan to add the
special Tk examples to it (and possibly the special octave interactive
examples), but otherwise I think it is complete. However, to make sure about
that please pay close attention to the examples that are run by "make
test_interactive", and if there is some important interactive test that is
missing (i.e., some interactive example you have recently implemented),
please let me know.

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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