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

[Geoffrey F. <fu...@ga...>]

Alan W. Irwin writes:
 > 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!

Unix commercial software is often, even usually controlled by a
license daemon.  The KCC C++ compiler I use is that way, purify is
that way, Sun, SGI, HP compilers are all that way, the CAD tools we
use at Lightspeed, etc.  In the old days there used to be a plethora
of licensing managers, but there seems to have been a consolidation so
that by now pretty much all Unix licensed software is using the
Globetrotter "FLexLM" license manager.  Oh, the PGI tools on Linux are
also controlled by FlexLM.  Mmm, and also the Intel C/C++ compiler for
Linux, which is generating rave reviews these days.

You've just been getting spoiled through your OSS immersion :-).

 > 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.

And Alan, we all deeply appreciate the great energy that you have put
into the release management process.

I'm looking forward to the final public announcement of 5.1.0, before
initiating my next PLplot undertaking.

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Geoffrey Furnish         fu...@ga...