[Plplot-devel] release status as of v5_1_0_rc2

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

I have just tagged v5_1_0_rc2 so you will be able to cvs checkout exactly
what I am working with if there is a major problem I need help with.
Meanwhile, feel free to CVS commit since I will be ignoring all updates.

Most of the changes are minor except for the new install location for
drivers and the new model for Makedemo, a.k.a. the Makefile in the installed
examples directory.  I have changed that file so it uses plplot-config
(which brings in -ltclmatrixd which is required on RH7.1) rather than
attempting to approximate the same thing which is what the old Makedemo was
trying to do.

Please try the new model on all platforms.  The critical question for this
model is does plplot-config work correctly on all platforms?  AFAIK nobody
has complained about plplot-config before so I assume it works on all
platforms, but if it doesn't we will have to fix it.

The RH 7.1 tests are mostly done.  I have been building it using the rpm
method so a byproduct of this work is an updated spec file which I just
committed before the rc2 tag.  After rpm installation, I tested the
installed examples.  The new examples Makefile which uses plplot-config (see
above) works like a charm on RH 7.1. The tk_test.sh script worked (albeit
rather slowly over my slow ssh link to the University).  Also x08c -dev
xwin, x08c -dev tk, and x08c -dev ntk all worked.  For the non-interactive
tests, the generated postscript (sans date) and plmeta files were identical
to the corresponding files generated on my Debian woody machine.  The png
and jpeg files were sometimes not identical.  I presume that is due to
different libraries (libgd 1.8.3 on RH 7.1 versus libgd 2.0.1 on Debian
woody.) Later tonight I will download those different jpeg and png files and
see how they display, but I presume they are fine since they built without
error messages and with no zero-length files.

Because of the good results on RH-7.1, I have tagged this version as
v5_1_0_rc2.  This version will be final unless something shows up when
viewing the RH-7.1-generated files or during the tests on the compile farm
solaris computer.

*With luck* we might have the release tomorrow.

Alan

email: ir...@be...
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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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