From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2003-02-17 01:49:54
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On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > Of course, everything will work fine if the correct path is set > independently by the user.... That explains it then. That is what is done by my non-interactive test scripts so that is why I was under the mistaken impression that octave was working well for 5.2.0. There is a lesson to be learned here; it should be emphasized that most of my release tests are non-interactive in nature (there is just no time for more) so in order to have a decent release, **the developers here must back up my test efforts with a variety of tests of your own**. For example, I leave all interactive octave tests before a release to Joao (and now Rafael) since I have never had time to learn octave. Also, the major testing responsibility for tcl/tk falls on the shoulders of Maurice, Geoffrey, and Vince although I do a modest amount of interactive testing of the GUI's in that case. Probably the non-interactive tests are good enough for the C, C++, f77, and python front ends (so long as they are tried by everybody on this list with access to a variety of platforms), but tcl/tk and octave are special cases which need extra testing attention by the experts in those languages. Rafael, I am glad you are applying such testing attention to the octave case. Also, I want to take this opportunity to say how pleased I am by your recent successful Debian packaging efforts which are now accessible from our website. I suspect those (and the official Debian packages once the 5.2.1 tarball release is completed) are going to bring in a lot more octave and other front end users and testers for PLplot. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin email: ir...@be... phone: 250-727-2902 Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis (www.cccma.bc.ec.gc.ca) and the PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ |