[Plplot-devel] Current plan is to release PLplot-5.2.0 on 18th January

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

The core PLplot developers seem reasonably happy with a release date of 18
January so we will go with that date.  That date will be fairly rigidly
enforced because I can only work on releases on weekends, and we don't want
it to slide to the next weekend unless a really bad showstopper problem
becomes evident.

To avoid such a possibility, I strongly encourage you to test the current
CVS version over the next two weeks on as wide a variety of platforms as
possible.  A very nice way to do this is simply to run the plplot-test.sh
script in the installed examples directory.  This exercises every non-GUI
example for every front end that you have configured and by default
generates postscript results using the psc device.  Subsequent tests at
later dates or for different platforms can be diffed against these results
to see what (if anything) has been changed in the results by any CVS
changes that have occurred.

On the day in question, my general plan is to make a release candidate CVS
tag early in the morning (UTC-8 hours), create a tarball, do my standard
tests from that tarball (probably take a number of hours) on Debian and
RH7.3, and if all goes well, retag as final and release the tarball and
corresponding RH7.3 source and binary rpm's at the SF site.

Alan

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University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055,
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