Re: [Plplot-devel] Planning for the release of 5.13.0

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

On 2017-08-14 02:11-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> The other uncertainty (other than how much time you have for testing
> this week) in the release schedule is I still have a set of wxwidgets
> issues remaining here which is the uninitialized variable in the
> wxwidgets superscript/subscript logic that you discovered with MSVC,
> and several other related issues I discovered for that
> superscript/subscript logic. These issues only affect the
> noninteractive test for MSVC (a build issue due to the uninitialized
> variable), and the wxwidgets-only interactive tests on all platforms.
> Which is why I encourage you to start your final noninteractive
> testing for MinGW-w64/MSYS2 and Cygwin immediately rather than
> waiting for my set of fixes.
>
> I am not done yet with this set of wxwidgets superscript/subscript
> fixes, but the uninitialized variable issue is solved, and I had
> several breakthroughs in understanding that wxwidgets code today so I
> am pretty confident I can finish this up by early Tuesday (UTC) which
> should get rid of the wxwidgets build error for the noninteractive
> MSVC case, and also allow you to interactively test wxwidgets on all
> three platforms.

As promised, DONE as of commit ac753c6.  This set of fixes did not
solve all issues with the superscript/subscript logic for wxwidgets
(see the commit message for the details).  However, none of the
remaining issues I identified are release critical, and they are all
difficult to understand/fix without a much better understanding of the
transformation between the wxwidgets text string origin and the
corresponding PLplot text string origin.  Therefore, I plan to deal
with these issues some time after the release as a low priority. As a
result, this commit is the last source code change for this release I
plan to make (unless our further testing turns up one or more
additional release critical issues).

Alan
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