[Plplot-general] PLplot-5.2.0 has just been released!

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

This is a quick announcement of the PLplot-5.2.0 release that has just
occurred. The official announcement will come later this week when I will
have more time to write it. Find the new release at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2915.

There is a PLplot-5.2.0 tarball as well as RH7.3 source and binary rpms for
PLplot-5.2.0 there.

There have been paradigm shifts in our library organization and in our
Linux/Unix configuration system which is now generated using autotools. So
please hammer on PLplot-5.2.0 for as many Unix/Linux platforms as you have
access to with the usual configure; make; make install.  The best way
to test is to cd $prefix/lib/plplot5.2.0/examples, execute make in each
of the c, c++, f77, and tk subdirectories, then execute plplot-test.sh.

"Works for me!" type reports with a clear description of your platform are
most welcome.  Of course, if you have problems please report back to
plplot-devel with the detailed results of configure, make, and make install
commands (and of course the description of your platform), and we will try
to sort out what the problem is.  There are bound to be some teething
troubles with paradigm shifts like these, but PLplot-5.2.0 has been
extensively tested on Linux systems and works well for them. Configuration
systems built with autotools are designed to be platform-neutral so there is
also good potential to be able to build and run PLplot-5.2.0 on a wide
variety of other Unix platforms as well.  So try it and see!

To motivate you to try this new release, I should mention that the python
and java interfaces to PLplot are now much more complete (thanks to swig).
Also have a look at our new screenshots on
http://plplot.sourceforge.net/examples/index.html (especially examples 8 and
11) to see what treats are in store for you.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our developers for their
effort over the last year.  That effort has just culminated in PLplot-5.2.0
which is the best version yet!

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin
email: ir...@be...
phone: 250-727-2902

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

Programming affiliations with the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and
Analysis (www.cccma.bc.ec.gc.ca) and the PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org).

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