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

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

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Geoffrey Furnish wrote:

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

And loving every minute of it....;-)

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

And I thank all the developers for their hard work.  There have been 500+
commits since the last release.  Not bad!

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

There is no need to wait.

I have been distracted today by file releasing the rpm's.  As part of my
RH-7.1 testing I made rpm's for that distribution so that was
straightforward.  But in addition Conrad Steenberg (my co-developer for
yplot) has just come through with rpm's for Mandrake 8.1 which I have been
checking in detail for any problems with the file list, scripts,
dependencies, etc.  Those Mandrake rpm's should appear shortly in our file
release area.  For those with Mandrake 8.1 or RedHat 7.1, I would appreciate
you giving those rpm's a spin.  Also, if somebody could come through with
SuSe rpm's those would be most appreciated as well.

Next week I hope to make RH 7.2 rpm's when our astrogroup computers are
converted from RH 7.1 to 7.2.  Also, Rafael has told me he will use his next
chance to work on free software to Debian package 5.1.0 (although no
promises yet on when this will occur).  I think that effort is really
important because Debian users are especially helpful with bug reports, and
it is great publicity for us to have PLplot-5.1.0 a standard part of a major
distribution.

I hope to get out the 5.1.0 release announcement tonight, but that won't
happen immediately because I am skimming through all those commit messages
to make sure I have not forgotten anything important.

Alan