[Plplot-devel] PLplot should be ready for comprehensive testing on modern software stacks

[Alan W. I. <Ala...@gm...>]

To PLplot developers and testers:

After a six-year break I have started developing again, and I
discovered recently that a number of PLplot maintenance issues had
accumulated when I upgraded my system from Debian Buster to Trixie.

I fixed most of those in a recent commit which I pushed.  The commit
message has lots of comments about the issues I ignored so I encourage
other here to try the latest git version of PLplot for themselves by
comprehensively testing it (as I documented in the commit message) on
your favorite platform, as well as fixing any of the maintenance
issues that I noticed but ignored or any additional issues you might
find.

I hope to get to one further PLplot issue soon (the news feed
no longer works at plplot.sf.net), but after that I plan to spend most
of my development effort on FreeEOS with only occasional contributions
to PLplot.

Cheers,

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

Research affiliation with the Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state
implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time
Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project
(unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net);
and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net).
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Linux-powered Science
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