Re: [Plplot-devel] Install location logic substantially updated

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

On 2017-07-22 15:07+0200 Ole Streicher wrote:

> It may be however be useful if you could create a "release candicate"
> (or beta) tarball, and give some time to test it. I could create a
> Debian package out of that and upload to our "experimental" branch.
> While you do probably not want to wait until it builds on all platforms
> (it has to go through review of our ftp-masters), I can do some tests
> locally and report back (but please, give some time; it is holiday
> season :-) )

Hi Ole:

I doubt I will bother with a release candidate.  But we all make
a pretty strong effort to keep the git master branch in good shape,
and the current tip of the master branch (i.e.,

4c90970 Build system: Quiet cmake developer warning

) is especially well tested.  So I suggest
you use that commit or later for your ongoing testing of
the development version of PLplot.

Of course, that commit is not a formal release candidate.  For
example, the version numbers (library SONAMEs as well as overall
version) have not been upgraded yet, and that will only happen some
time after our source code freeze and the associated review of the git
log to see what changes have been made since 5.12.0.  But the point is
this well-tested version is much closer to 5.13.0 than 5.12.0 so if
you fix all the issues for this development version (with me attending
to some of them upstream like the install location issues I just
addressed) you will likely have very little left to do on the Debian
packaging front when 5.13.0 is officially released.

Probably more important still, this is a relatively good time for me
to make upstream changes based on your experience with the developer
version of PLplot, but my willingness to implement such changes is
going to rapidly decrease (i.e., I will likely put you off until
post-release unless you have found something absolutely release
critical) as we move closer to the release.

Alan
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