[Plplot-devel] 5.1.0 tagged final!!!!

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

Before getting to the interesting subject of this e-mail, I should note BTW,
that I fooled around trying to get the native solaris compiler to work on
that compile farm machine this morning.  It was incredibly slow taking
minutes to compile a "hello world" programme.  Finally, after two
frustrating hours I got a message that the cc license-server was dead! Since
my working environment is Microsoft free, I never thought I would have to
contend with such licensing issues, but Sun proved me wrong....GRRH!

Anyhow, I will just rely on whatever solaris native compiler testing others
here have done.

For the solaris/gcc tests from yesterday, the 10 plmeta file differences for
solaris compile farm versus Debian woody were hard to see when I compared
results visually using plrender -dev xwin. And similarly for the 4
postscript file differences. Therefore, I judge this particular solaris/gcc
test as successful, and

=======>that completes the testing<=========

Now the actual release process begins.

I CVS tagged this version as v5_1_0_final. The only difference between
v5_1_0_final and v5_1_0_rc2 was the plplot-config.in bugfix.

v5_1_0_final is just being uploaded to the file release area as I write
this, and will probably appear there (taking into account server delays) in
an hour or so.  There is a lot to talk about for this release so it will
take me a while to put the announcement together which you will probably see
on plplot_general late this evening or even tomorrow.

I want to thank all of you who contributed so much to this release with
extensive development over the last 7 months as well as extensive bug fixing
and cross-platform testing over the last several weeks.

I believe this will be a release we can all be proud of.

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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