[Plplot-devel] documentation rebuilt and uploaded to our web site.

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

Today I rebuilt our documentation on Debian woody, checked the man, info,
dvi, postscript, html, and pdf results, and uploaded those results to our
live web site.  The effort was non-trivial because I had to find and install
all the many packages that are needed.  I was also concerned that with all
the package updates that had occurred between potato and woody, that
something would be broken in our documentation build, but all was well.

I also was hoping to build the documentation on a RH 7.1 system I have
access to, but I don't know the easy way to install the many perl modules
that are required.  I don't want to end up fighting between tarball and rpm
installs of those modules. (Joao may have run into this problem as well on
his SuSe system.) Thus, I will put off a build of our docs on RedHat systems
until (much?) after the release.

Since I no longer have access to a RH 6.2 system and that distribution and
probably the Cygnus DocBook rpm's we used on that distribution are quite
dated, I decided to remove everything referring to RH and Cygnus from
README.developers. I also completely reorganized this file and updated it to
refer to docbook2X version 0.7 (we use that package to generate man and info
results) and Debian woody.  The resulting README.developers is much better
than the previous dog's breakfast.  (And I can say that because I was
responsible for that bad organization.)

This completes my documentation effort for this release.

The only things remaining on my wishlist are the unification work for
examples 16 and 18. I will try to get to that tomorrow, but will stop all
such work by the test period start (8 AM PST = 16:00 UT on Tuesday) and will
also ask you to refrain from non bug-fixing commits after that time.

I just talked with the sysadmin of the University's astrogroup, and he was
kind enough to give me root access to a RedHat 7.1 machine there. This will
substantially widen our testing environment and will also allow me to
release RH 7.1 rpms at the same time as our tarball of 5.1.0.  The RH 7.2
rpm's will come later once one of our astrogroup computers is upgraded to
that version in a few weeks from now.

Alan

email: ir...@be...
phone: 250-727-2902	FAX: 250-721-7715
snail-mail:
Dr. Alan W. Irwin
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055,
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P6
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