Re: [Plplot-devel] PLPlot on MS Windows

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

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Olof Svensson wrote:

> Hi Alan,
>
> I'm happy to try to get the latest cvs plplot version working under
> win32. When are you planning to release a new stable release of plplot?
>
> Regards,
>
> Olof

Thanks in advance for your win32 efforts with the latest cvs release.  I
hope they go smoothly so we can get them into the next release.

I want to emphasize that we are a small developer group with good e-mail
communications between us so that allows a rather informal release process
(which I think is a good thing). For example, the release timing is usually
not fixed until the last several days depending on last-minute decisions
about what people want to get into the release, and I tend to declare a
freeze to cvs changes only for the few hours it takes me to test and get out
the release.

Let's aim for a month from now for the release.  Mid-December should keep us
away from Christmas travel disruptions and should give us plenty of time to
fix the only two bugs (segfault for xw09 and half the map missing for the
3rd page of the world map demo, x19c) in the latest cvs version that were
not in 5.0.4. The 4-5 weeks until the release gives developers a chance to
add some additional features as well.  For example, I hope to add more java
examples and extend the python examples, and certainly improvements to the
pyqt GUI and getting plplot to work on w2K would be most welcome for the
release.

Alan