Re: [Plplot-devel] Thoughts from the release guy

[<jc...@fe...>]

On Monday 30 September 2002 22:03, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
| Whenever we make enough significant changes in PLplot (and the
| current CVS HEAD definitely qualifies on that score in my opinion),
| then I start thinking about the timing for the next release date.
=2E..
| Major, essential
|
| (1) The major release issue is to get the library linking in good
| shape cross-platform.  So if anybody wants to tackle any of the
| remaining problems (rationalizing the libraries some more, static
| drivers on Linux, static libraries on Linux, plus generalization of
| the Linux solution to cross-platform) that would be great.=20
| Unfortunately, just in the wrong time frame from the PLplot
| perspective my research collaborations have gotten much more intense
| over the last month or so with other people waiting for me to finish
| joint papers so it will be at least November before I can take on a
| large project like the remaining library linking stuff.  But I am
| determined to finish it eventually if nobody else gets it done first.

I start playing with this, but stopped. If my current plans of adding=20
contour lines to plotfc3d() fails, I might restart the attempt.=20
=2E..

| (5) Joao had trouble with cursors in example 1 for SuSe, Maurice does
| not with RH 7.3.  I think I may have the problem (blue cross-hairs
| appear, but no numbers seem to be typed when you click).  How do you
| generate the error, and what are the exact symptoms, again, Joao, and
| have you found a fix?

I guess the problem was some incomplete rpm updates in my system. The=20
reported problem has gone without code changes.

Joao