[Plplot-devel] Release Status -- Still looking good for Thursday

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

On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Maurice LeBrun wrote:

>  > ./x01c -dev plmeta -o x01c.meta
>  > ./plrender -i x01c.meta -dev tk
>  > TCL command "
>  >          invalid command name "
>  >
>  > Can this bug be fixed before the release?
>
> With dyndrivers enabled, I don't see it.

> So I'm pretty much stuck on that point.
> Hmm.. maybe it is related to the devlist bug.

You are right.  The problem was still there yesterday, but now it is
solved.  Thanks very much for this effort!

Release Status:

From above, my impression is that the tk driver is now ready for the
release.  Yesterday, I finished all I wanted to do (the README's) in this
cycle of the documentation work. Thanks to Geoffrey's recent API work we
have example 9 and example 15 compatible between Java and the other front
ends.  That still leaves my compatibility work (probably a day or two more)
for examples 16 and 18. After that I will work on coaxing the documentation
to build for the first time on Debian woody. (That's probably just a matter
of getting the right documentation packages installed.) Anyhow, I plan to
terminate my wishlist before Tuesday.

Joao, my impression from what you said is you decided to commit your plimage
stuff.  I haven't seen that yet, but I assume that will happen before Tuesday.

Could somebody please volunteer to do a final comprehensive check that the C
code is ansi-compliant?  This would take some release burden off me.  (I
think I can recall how to check it, but if there are warnings, I wouldn't
know how to fix up the problems except for the // commentary that screws
up the Slowaris compiler.)

Does anybody else here have work they want to get in before Tuesday?  I
would like to call a CVS "soft" freeze (nothing but bug fixes allowed)
starting Tuesday 8 a.m. PST.

I plan to start the comprehensive non-interactive testing on Tuesday for the
various platforms that are available to me and Joao. This will take some
time because there are a lot of images to look at, and there may still be
some bugs that need squashing.  Nevertheless, I believe we are still on
schedule for releasing on Thursday with a hard CVS freeze starting Thursday
8.am. PST.

Alan