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

[Orion P. <or...@nw...>]

On 4/11/26 16:54, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> 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.

Alan -

Welcome back!

FYI - I'm not sure how much longer I will be maintaining plplot in 
Fedora.  I did it because I maintained GDL and it used plplot - but 
during the plplot development hiatus they decided to just fork what they 
used from plplot into their own repo.

But, I have some nostalgic interest so I have started poking at the 
latest git and will start to post more info and update various pull 
requests if needed.

But my first question is about this:

commit 5c0bfc342f4b92c76db6f581b328b1fe7d6e33ad
Author: Alan W. Irwin <ai...@us...>
Date:   Mon Jan 13 15:01:28 2020 -0800

     BUILD_SYSTEM: Implement libLASi version check

     The psttf and psttfc devices only work reliably for libLASi-1.1.4 or
     higher so implement a version check to that effect.


Where is libLASi 1.1.4? 
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lasi/files/lasi/ only shows up to 1.1.3.

I guess it appears that svn trunk is version 1.1.4 - but if you are 
going to require it you really should make a libLASi 1.1.4 release.


Another issue is that plplot fails to build with Tcl/Tk 9.  Not sure if 
that is on your radar or not.

Another note is that Qt5 is out of support now.  Any plans to port to Qt6?

This appears to still be an issue:
https://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/plplot/merge-requests/8/

We are also still needing to apply this patch:
https://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/mailman/message/37165423/

The good news is that it appears that all tests are succeeding on all 
architectures.  Nice!

Orion


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