RE: [Plplot-devel] Deadline for 5.1.0 is Monday 8 AM PST = 16:00 UT

[Maurice L. <mj...@ga...>]

Geoffrey Furnish writes:
 > Alan W. Irwin writes:
 >  > Hello everybody.  Since our efforts to release 5.1.0 seem to have stalled,
 >  > I'm reinitiating the test/release plan.  
 > 
 > Thanks Alan for restarting the count down.

Sorry my efforts have slowed, but I may yet get some more stuff sorted out in
time for inclusion for tomorrow's release.

 > I'm afraid I am writing to report some possibly discouraging news.
 > The Tk driver is not working for me right now.  I'm getting:
 > 
 > Packet send failed:
 >          pl_PacketSend -- error writing to fifo: bad file number
 > TCL command "plclient_link_end" failed:
 >          no application named "cplace_x86kaig"
 > Program aborted
 > 
 > when I run my code.  The tk driver starts, the plframe is displayed,
 > then it all vanishes in a puff of smoke, and 50% of the time or so, it
 > prints the above message, the other times it all simply vanishes
 > without a trace.

No idea.. I've never seen this.  BTW it may be informative to run including
the -debug option.  Then again it may not help.

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Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...