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

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

On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, [iso-8859-1] Jo=E3o Cardoso wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Some problems that I detected during a pause:
>
> 1-Java (as well as Python and Octave) can't be build without shared
> libraries. "configure" does not check for this and enables java if,
> by accident, java exists and JAVA_HOME is defined.

=2E.. and if you explicitly enable java.  It is not on by default because j=
ava
is still judged to be experimental; the API is not yet complete---although
getting closer, and I am sure there are probably still a number of Java
configuration issues to sort out. Thus, my judgement is these are minor
configuration issues that are far from release critical, and I have higher
priorities at the moment.  However, if somebody else wants to tackle these
issues (before Tuesday) that is fine with me.

>
> 2-Fortran examples x06f.f and x07f.f don't compile, eg:

Fortran has worked forever for me, but I just tried again, and no problem.
Thus, I cannot confirm your bug report.  Did you configure with
--with-double?  That is required for fortran.

Joao, although I don't view your first report as a particularly serious
problem, and I could not confirm your second report, I very much appreciate
your continued tests, and your "Devil's Advocate" attitude that there has
got to be something seriously wrong with this release if you dig deeply
enough. Without that attitude something serious might in fact slip by.  By
now, I am probably a lousy tester because I don't expect to find anything
wrong because it so rarely happens in my non-interactive tests. So throw
everything you got (especially interactive tests) at this latest version of
PLplot!

Alan