Re: [Plplot-devel] Recently introduced Tcl regressions for examples 15 and 18

[Arjen M. <Arj...@de...>]

Hi Alan,



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@be...]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2016 7:52 PM
> To: Arjen Markus; PLplot development list
> Subject: Recently introduced Tcl regressions for examples 15 and 18
>
> Hi Arjen:
>
> Just before your recent holiday you committed a Tcl change to support redacted
> argument lists for all parts of the Tcl binding API that involved matrix arguments,
> but I reported back to you at the time that certain Tcl examples errored out at run
> time due to those changes.
>
> It turns out that report from me was a false alarm which I attribute to inconsistent
> build results cached by CMake.  Currently when I start with an empty build tree,
> configure PLplot with cmake, and then build the test_diff_psc target, the entire set
> of Tcl examples completes without any showstopper errors.  So that is a big relief
> and sorry for the noise about run-time errors for the Tcl examples!
>
> However, for master tip there are still two remaining issues from your commit which
> are the following PostScript difference regressions from the perfect Tcl PostScript
> differences I obtained in January:
>
> tcl
>    Missing examples            :
>    Differing graphical output  :  15 18
>    Missing stdout              :
>    Differing stdout            :
>
> I would appreciate it if you solved these regressions as a high priority the next time
> you have a chance to work on PLplot.
>
Okay, I have put that on my TODO list. There is also the matter of the linkage problem under bare Windows that requires looking into.

Regards,

Arjen



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