[Plplot-cvs] SF.net SVN: plplot:[12981] trunk/README.release

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Revision: 12981
          http://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/code/12981
Author:   airwin
Date:     2014-02-07 02:49:25 +0000 (Fri, 07 Feb 2014)
Log Message:
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Describe my tests for this release.  Note the tough part of these are
already done (comprehensive noninteractive test on MinGW/MSYS) and I
am completely confident I can finish the rest, but if not these notes
will have to be revised.

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/README.release

Modified: trunk/README.release
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--- trunk/README.release	2014-02-06 08:05:34 UTC (rev 12980)
+++ trunk/README.release	2014-02-07 02:49:25 UTC (rev 12981)
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
 
 3. Tests made for the current release
 
+4. Tests made for the prior release
+
 1. OFFICIAL NOTICES FOR USERS
 
 The distinction we made prior to 5.10.0 between stable and development
@@ -61,8 +63,11 @@
 2.3 Update the PLplot build system so that the Tcl/Tk/Itcl/Itk/Iwidgets
 bindings and examples work on MinGW/MSYS.
 
-2.4 Update api.xml to be consistent with our public API defined by plplot.h.
+2.4 Make many minor build-system fixes so that comprehensive tests (see
+test summaries below) finally work well on MinGW/MSYS.
 
+2.5 Update api.xml to be consistent with our public API defined by plplot.h.
+
 This substantial improvement to our DocBook documentation for our
 public API has been made possible by the "check" application written
 by Hǎiliàng Wáng (see
@@ -80,13 +85,64 @@
 
 3. Tests made for the current release.
 
-None at this time.  
+Note that "comprehensive tests" below refers to running
+scripts/comprehensive_test.sh in default mode (i.e., not dropping any
+tests).  For each of our three major configurations (shared
+libraries/dynamic devices, shared libraries/nondynamic devices, and
+static libraries/nondynamic devices) this test script runs ctest in
+the build tree and runs the test_noninteractive and test_interactive
+targets in the build tree, the installed examples tree configured with
+a CMake-based build system for the examples, and an installed examples
+tree configured with our traditional (Make + pkg-config) build system
+for the examples.  Testers can run that script directly or there is a
+convenient option called -DENABLE_COMPREHENSIVE_PLPLOT_TEST=ON for
+epa_build (see cmake/epa_build/README) that automatically runs that
+script for the build_plplot_lite case (The cairo, qt, and wxwidgets
+device drivers are dropped) or the usual build_plplot case (no components
+of PLplot dropped).
 
-However, to remind testers of what they did in the latter
-stages of the release cycle for the previous release
-here are the notes from those earlier tests:
+Note that all tests mentioned below were successful ones unless
+noted differently.
 
+* Alan W. Irwin ran comprehensive tests via epa_build of plplot (as
+opposed to plplot_lite) on a 64-bit Debian Wheezy Linux platform on
+AMD-64 hardware.  That system has virtually every relevant PLplot
+dependency either epa_built or system-installed.  So these tests are
+virtually complete test of all aspects of PLplot.
 
+* Alan W. Irwin ran comprehensive tests via epa_build of plplot_lite (as
+opposed to plplot) on a 64-bit Debian Wheezy Linux platform on
+AMD-64 hardware.  These tests show that the remaining components
+of PLplot work well when some important components (i.e., cairo, qt, and
+wxwidgets device drivers) are dropped.
+
+* Alan W. Irwin ran comprehensive tests of plplot_lite on 32-bit
+MinGW/MSYS/Wine for AMD-64 hardware.  (This test is only for
+plplot_lite since currently some of the additional dependencies of
+plplot do not build on MinGW/MSYS/Wine.  It is not clear whether this
+is due to a Wine issue or an epa_build configuration issue for
+MinGW/MSYS.)  The language bindings and examples tested were ada, c,
+c++, f95, lua, python, tcl, tk, itcl, itk. and iwidgets.  The device
+drivers tested were ntk, pdf, ps, svg, wingcc, and xfig.  So this test
+is less complete than the equivalent Linux test above due to lack of
+PLplot dependencies on MinGW/MSYS.  But the epa_build project has
+already closed some of that dependency gap for this platform (e.g., by
+providing builds of pkg-config, swig, libagg, libharu, shapelib,
+libqhull, and everything Tcl-related), and it is hoped it will close
+even more of that dependency gap in the future.
+
+The Wine version for this test was 1.6.1 which was built on Debian
+Wheezy; the compiler was (MinGW) gcc-4.7.2; the Windows binary version
+of CMake was downloaded from Kitware and was version 2.8.12.1; the
+CMake generator was "MSYS Makefiles"; and the build command was "make"
+(i.e., the MSYS version, not the MinGW version).
+
+4. Tests made for the prior release
+
+To remind the test team of the tests that were run for the
+last release (5.9.11) here are the complete notes on
+those tests from the previous release announcement.
+
 Note that "comprehensive tests" below refers to running
 scripts/comprehensive_test.sh in default mode (i.e., not dropping any
 tests).  For each of our three major configurations (shared
@@ -104,7 +160,7 @@
 * Alan W. Irwin ran comprehensive tests for a complete system build
 environment on 64-bit Debian Wheezy Linux for AMD-64 hardware.
 
-* Alan W. Irwin ran comprehensive testsfor a limited (qt, cairo, wxwidgets,
+* Alan W. Irwin ran comprehensive tests for a limited (qt, cairo, wxwidgets,
 and octave PLplot components were dropped) epa_build environment on
 64-bit Debian Wheezy Linux for AMD-64 hardware.
 

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