Re: [Plplot-general] Call for testing of the PLplot git master tip version

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

On 2015-03-17 12:57-0500 Aaron Hexamer wrote:

> Alan,
>
> Since this is my first time providing feedback, my apologies if this is not
> the preferred mechanism.  First off, thanks for supporting such a useful
> library.  I use it in a frequency response analysis tool I made for
> PicoScopes: (https://bitbucket.org/hexamer/fra4picoscope/wiki/Home).  I've
> been putting a some effort into getting better font support, in-particular
> trying mem-cairo/cairo-pango.  Since that effort dead ended on version
> 5.10.0, I thought I should try the 5.11.0 pre-release you announced.  Not
> much progress yet, but I thought I should mention a possible incompatibility
> with Visual Studio 2012.  I see that plmetafile.c uses lround.
> Unfortunately I don't think MSVC 2012 has C99 support, so it does not
> include lround.

Thanks Aaron for that report:

The only quibble with your report that I have is it should be directed
to plplot-general so I have done that in this reply.

Someone else found the same missing lround build issue for
MSVC 2012 which we have literally just now (commit id 0bfe721) worked
around with a placeholder.  (This is allowed because plmetafile.c is
completely experimental code which is currently unused except for one
new test application, and plmetafile.c will likely have a lot of
revision post-release just where lround was used in any case.)

Anyhow, try master tip again.  Also, for all those here trying the git
version, I highly recommend you sign up for our git feed which gives
you e-mail notification of our git changes.  To do that, log into
SourceForge (essential) and click on the feed signup button you will
find at <https://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/plplot/ci/master/tree/>.

Alan
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