Re: [Plplot-devel] New test run on Debian woody + FURTHER TESTS + NEW RELEASE?

[Joao C. <jca...@in...>]

On Thursday 18 October 2001 18:14, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
| On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jo=E3o Cardoso wrote:
| > On Thursday 18 October 2001 01:32, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
=2E..

| FURTHER TESTS....
|
| I also ran the script for the png driver this morning, and there are so=
me
| problems (for real this time ....;-)) with the octave stuff in that cas=
e.
| There are severe size problems with the legends for all plots.

As it didn't happen for me, I was assuming that the fault was yours.
But the other day I start octave with the xwin driver, and I noticed the=20
problems.

The problem does not occur for the tk or ps drivers!
Hummm, can't this be related with your changes related with the aspect-ra=
tio=20
problem?

|  This does
| not happen for the postscript results although the sizing of the legend=
s
| needs work there as well.  I think the problem is that pixel units are
| being used rather than coordinates that will give the same result for e=
very
| driver.

The problem with the legend box, is that I need to calculated the box=20
dimension, knowing the string size and the number of lines, and I use the=
=20
returned height from plgchr(). As plplot fonts are proportional, the widt=
h of=20
the box will be wrong some times, but the height should be OK. If plgchr(=
)=20
returns a wrong height, everything gets messed.
Could your changes related with fonts and aspect-ratio have some impact o=
n=20
this?

Joao


| Also, page 1 of the p15 plot and page 1 of the p7 plot are missing
| a lot of the plot that is visible with the postscript driver.  I think =
it
| is a colour initialization problem in both cases that might be fixed by
| setting the colour at the start of each octave example rather than rely=
ing
| on default values.  (I have run into this problem before with the octav=
e
| examples; the colour results depend on the order you run the plots, and=
 the
| driver.)

Could you give a recipe to make it fail?

| All png results differed from previous which is expected because I am n=
ow
=2E..

| NEW RELEASE?
|
| If somebody is willing to fix the two mentioned postscript problems, an=
d
| Joao sorts out the legend coordinate and colour initialization problems=
 for
| the octave examples, I think that would put us in good position to rele=
ase
| 5.1.0 as a stable release in the near future featuring the dynamic driv=
ers
| and the new java stuff (if I can figure out how to test it).  This
| presupposes that it will be some time (because of his new job pressures=
)
| beofe Rafael can start integrating his AM/LT changes.
|
| What do the rest of you think of this release strategy?=20

Thats OK to release often, but call it 5.1.0 is too much, as there are st=
ill=20
many loose things to fix.

Joao