Re: [Plplot-general] ANNOUNCEMENT: PLplot Release 5.6.0

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

On 2006-05-08 23:12+0200 Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> * Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> [2006-05-06 10:43]:
>
>> You are right. Our new and experimental fortran 95 effort in bindings/f95
>> and examples/f95 was inadvertently left out of the tarball.  I have no idea
>> how we missed this, but there it is.  Thanks for pointing this issue out.
>
> Is it time to release 5.6.1?

Good question.

The short answer is not immediately, but there is some hope within two weeks.

The reason is the version of f95 in our CVS as of the 5.6.0 release date was
not complete, had syntax errors, etc.  In other words, if we simply stick it
into the tarball as of that date, it wouldn't be worth much to the users.

The recent f95 news is I have been working hard on completing and debugging
it for the last few days, and I finally got it to work properly with
gfortran just this morning.

It now needs to be tested by others with access to cvs, and more examples
added to more extensively test the f95 API.  There is also an outstanding
issue with the values of the bounding box used by the psttf device driver. I
am hoping everything will be ready for a bug-fix release in say two weeks
time, but the exact timing of that release is continuing to be discussed on
plplot_devel and also depends heavily on how much time our release manager,
Hazen Babcock, can devote to it.  Fortunately, this proposed bug-fix release
should be much easier for him than the last one!

Note the missing f95 and the bounding-box issue for the psttf device driver
are the only two issues reported so far for 5.6.0.  I strongly encourage
those now using plplot-5.6.0 to test it hard and report any additional
bugs so that we can have an outstanding 5.6.1 release.

Alan
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