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From: <ai...@us...> - 2013-10-01 06:30:29
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Revision: 12562
http://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/code/12562
Author: airwin
Date: 2013-10-01 06:30:27 +0000 (Tue, 01 Oct 2013)
Log Message:
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Prepare new version of this file (currently with no changes relative
to 5.9.10) to be used by every active developer during the course of the
of 5.9.11 release cycle to record their notable changes.
Modified Paths:
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Modified: trunk/README.release
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--- trunk/README.release 2013-10-01 06:22:48 UTC (rev 12561)
+++ trunk/README.release 2013-10-01 06:30:27 UTC (rev 12562)
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-PLplot Release 5.9.10
+PLplot Release 5.9.11
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This is a development release of PLplot. It represents the ongoing efforts
of the community to improve the PLplot plotting package. Development
@@ -21,32 +21,10 @@
CHANGES
--1. Important changes we should have mentioned in previous release announcements.
+0. Tests made for release 5.9.11
--1.1 Add full bindings and examples for the D language.
+1. Changes relative to PLplot 5.9.10 (the previous development release)
-0. Tests made for release 5.9.10
-
-1. Changes relative to PLplot 5.9.9 (the previous development release)
-
-1.1 The format for map data used by plmap has changed
-1.2 Python support for Numeric has been dropped
-1.3 Backwards-incompatible API change to non-integer line widths
-1.4 Improvements to the build system for the Cygwin case
-1.5 The plcolorbar API has been finalized
-1.6 Documentation of the new legend and color bar capabilities of PLplot
-1.7 The D bindings and examples have been converted from the
-old version of D (D1) to the new version of D (D2)
-1.8 The DocBook documentation for PLplot is now generated using modern
-XML/XSL backend tools for DocBook
-1.9 Implement experimental build_projects sub-project
-1.10 Implement extremely simple "00" example
-1.11 Convert to using the Allura form of SourceForge software
-1.12 Use NON_TRANSITIVE linking by default for the shared libraries case for
-all non-windows systems
-1.13 Update f95 examples to take larger advantage of Fortran 95 capabilities
-1.14 Substantial additions to the doxygen documentation
-
2. Changes relative to PLplot 5.8.0 (the previous stable release)
2.1 All autotools-related files have now been removed
@@ -481,191 +459,10 @@
CHANGES
-0. Tests made for release 5.9.10
+0. Tests made for release 5.9.11
-Comprehensive testing that showed no non-zero return codes or other
-obvious run-time issues such as segfaults was done for the Debian
-Wheezy platform. These tests were done with the
-scripts/comprehensive_test.sh which does 21 major tests. Those tests
-consist of seven tests (ctest, and "make test_noninteractive" and make
-"test_interactive" results for the build tree, and "make
-test_noninteractive" and make "test_interactive" results for both the
-traditional and CMake-based build systems for the installed examples
-tree) for each of our three major configurations (shared
-libraries/dynamic devices, shared libraries/non-dynamic devices,
-static libraries/non-dynamic devices).
+1. Changes relative to PLplot 5.9.10 (the previous development release)
-More limited testing that showed no non-zero return codes or other
-obvious run-time issues such as segfaults was done on a large number
-of different platforms including the following:
-
-Fedora with "Unix Makefiles" generator
-Ubuntu with "Unix Makefiles" generator
-Debian unstable with "Unix Makefiles" generator
-Debian wheezy with "Ninja" generator
-Wine version of Windows with "MSYS Makefiles" generator
-Wine version of Windows with "MinGW Makefiles" generator
-Wine version of Windows with "NMake Makefiles JOM" generator
-Microsoft version of Windows with Cygwin and with "Unix Makefiles" generator
-Microsoft version of Windows with "MinGW Makefiles" generator
-Microsoft version of Windows with "MSYS Makefiles" generator
-Microsoft version of Windows with "NMake Makefiles" generator
-
-1. Changes relative to PLplot 5.9.9 (the previous development release)
-
-N.B. This release includes many code cleanups and fixes relative to
-5.9.9 that are not mentioned in the list below.
-
-1.1 The format for map data used by plmap has changed
-
-The format for map data used by plmap is now the shapefile format.
-This is a widely used standard format and there are many sources of data
-in this format. This replaces the custom binary format that PLplot used
-to use. The support for reading shapefiles is provided by the shapelib
-library, which is a new dependency for PLplot. If users do not have this
-installed then, by default, they will not get any map capabilities with
-PLplot. Support for the old format can still be enabled by setting the
-PL_DEPRECATED cmake variable, but this support will be removed in a
-subsequent PLplot release.
-
-1.2 Python support for Numeric has been dropped
-
-Support for the python Numeric package has been dropped. This has been
-deprecated since 5.9.6. Numeric is no longer supported and is superseded
-by numpy. Support for numpy has been the default in plplot for a number
-of years so most users should notice no difference.
-
-1.3 Backwards-incompatible API change to non-integer line widths
-
-All functions which take line width arguments (plwidth, plshade*,
-pllegend) now use PLFLT values for the line width. This allows device
-drivers which are based on modern graphics libraries such as Qt4 and
-pango/cairo to make full use (e.g., extremely fine line widths) of the
-floating-point line width capabilities of those libraries. The
-replacement of plwid by plwidth, and the change in argument lists for
-plshade* and pllegend constitute a backwards incompatible API change
-from previous releases and the soname of libraries has been bumped
-accordingly (which forces users to recompile PLplot).
-
-1.4 Improvements to the build system for the Cygwin case
-
-The Cygwin platform provides a full-featured Unix environment on
-Windows. CMake has recently been changed (at the request of Cygwin
-developers) to emphasize the Unix aspects of the Cygwin platform and
-deemphasize the Windows aspects of that platform. It was argued this
-change would tend to make CMake builds of software much more reliable
-on Cygwin, and after some small but important changes to our
-CMake-based build system to adjust for these recent CMake changes for
-Cygwin, we have indeed confirmed that prediction for the PLplot case.
-There are still some Cygwin platform issues left which are being
-discussed on our Wiki at http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Setup_cygwin,
-but some fundamental breakthroughs have also been made for the Cygwin case
-that should interest all our Windows users. For example, for the
-first time ever we have been able to build our cairo and qt device
-drivers on the Cygwin platform giving our Windows users convenient
-access to the many high-quality PLplot devices that are available with
-these two different device drivers.
-
-1.5 The plcolorbar API has been finalized
-
-The function plcolorbar allows users to create a color bar (an
-annotated subplot representing a continuous range of colors within the
-main plot and typically identifying certain colors with certain
-numerical values using an axis). The plcolorbar capabilities are
-documented in our DocBook (and doxygen) documentation and demonstrated
-in standard examples 16 and 33.
-
-N.B. The previous two releases (5.9.8 and 5.9.9) contained
-unadvertised experimental versions of plcolorbar. Any PLplot user who
-found and tried those capabilities will have to reprogramme their
-plcolorbar calls to be compatible with the argument list of the latest
-version.
-
-1.6 Documentation of the new legend and color bar capabilities of PLplot
-
-The pllegend and plcolorbar API has been documented in both doxygen
-and DocBook forms. In addition, the "advanced use" chapter of the
-DocBook form of documentation now contains a section giving an
-overview of pllegend and plcolorbar.
-
-N.B. Although we feel the pllegend and plcolorbar API has now been
-finalized with regard to the PLplot core developers own interests and
-needs, we also realize that as more and more PLplot users take
-advantage of these new PLplot capabilities there will likely be calls
-to add additional features to pllegend or plcolorbar based on
-additional experience with these powerful capabilities. In general,
-we would welcome such feature requests.
-
-1.7 The D bindings and examples have been converted from the
-old version of D (D1) to the new version of D (D2)
-
-This change should make PLplot much more relevant for D users
-going forward.
-
-See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(programming_language)#History for
-a discussion of the differences between these two variants of D.
-
-1.8 The DocBook documentation for PLplot is now generated using modern
-XML/XSL backend tools for DocBook
-
-These modern backend tools (such as xmlto) replace the
-deprecated/unmaintained SGML/DSSL tools we have used before. For
-developers this means generation of our DocBook generation is much
-easier. much faster, and much less error-prone. End users will notice
-some improvements in the results (e.g., the table of Greek letters) as
-well as some minor style changes.
-
-1.9 Implement experimental build_projects sub-project
-
-The idea here (see cmake/build_projects) is to automate the build of
-all PLplot dependencies and the build and test of PLplot itself for
-platforms (such as Linux enterprise distributions and all forms of
-Windows platforms other than Cygwin) that do not come with modern
-versions of PLplot soft dependencies such as Pango/Cairo and Qt.
-This project is beginning to work properly for the Linux case, but
-still needs lots of work for the Windows case.
-
-1.10 Implement extremely simple "00" example
-
-The point of this standard example is to give the users an extremely
-simple tutorial example to help them to get started with 2D plotting
-with PLplot.
-
-1.11 Convert to using the Allura form of SourceForge software
-
-We use sourceforge.net as our software hosting facility. Early in
-2013 Sourceforge updated essentially all their support software as
-part of the so-called Allura project. This made it necessary to make
-some minor internal PLplot changes such as script changes and different URL's
-in the website referring to SourceForge facilities. The most important
-change from the user perspective is the URL for the Allura form
-of the svn repository that we use now:
-
-http://svn.code.sf.net/p/plplot/code/trunk/
-
-1.12 Use NON_TRANSITIVE linking by default for the shared libraries case for
-all non-windows systems
-
-The point of this change is to reduce overlinking and therefore
-the problems caused by overlinking that are mentioned
-at http://en.altlinux.org/UnderOverLinkProblems.
-
-Non-transitive linking means link only to libraries that directly
-resolve undefined symbols, i.e., do not link to a library just because
-it is a dependency of a dependency.
-
-1.13 Update f95 examples to take larger advantage of Fortran 95 capabilities
-
-Previously our f95 examples tended to use legacy Fortran capabilities, but
-that situation has substantially changed for this release.
-
-1.14 Substantial additions to the doxygen documentation
-
-One of the on-going documentation projects is to create doxygen
-documentation of every single argument of the public API for PLplot.
-A substantial increase in such documentation has been implemented
-in this release cycle.
-
2. Changes relative to PLplot 5.8.0 (the previous stable release)
N.B. This release includes many code cleanups and fixes relative to
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