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

[Rafael L. <ra...@la...>]

Hi Alan,

I'm glad to hear that you've resumed working on PLplot!

I applied many patches to the Debian package for PLplot that should be 
integrated upstream. I will try to do so in the coming weeks.

I have a question about the website plplot.org. It seems that the 
domain has been taken over and now shows a page entitled "Best EMF 
Meters Review and Testing Guides." Did you register the domain in the 
past? Are there any plans to restore the original website?

Best,

Rafael

* Alan W. Irwin <Ala...@gm...> [2026-04-11 15:54]:

> 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 
> __________________________ 
> 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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