Re: [Plplot-devel] Debian + tarball announcements

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

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> Two good news for today:
>
> 1) I succeeded to generated the first release candidate tarball from the CVS
>    sources using "make dist".  I tested it in the context of my Debian
>    packaging, so I have no idea if it will work corectly elsewhere
>    (actually, I would be surprised if it work perfectly).  Please, test it.
>    The URL is:
>
>        http://people.debian.org/~rafael/plplot-5.2.0.cvs.20030306.tar.gz

Thanks for all your efforts in getting make dist to work.

A practical question.  How do we do this for ourselves?  make won't work
until you configure.  Is the tarball result completely independent of what
the configuration options are?  For example, if you disable all drivers
except null and disable all front ends do you still get the same tarball
result? Also, what happens if you do/don't enable the documentation
building?

Side note: I don't have much time for PLplot at the moment, but my highest
priority is to get the documentation builds working on RedHat (and
eventually SuSe with Joao's cooperation).  (I have decided to put off
worrying about libpthread linking until after the release since it is turned
off by default in any case.) So soon I hope others besides the Debian users
here (Rafael, Andrew, and me) should be able to make a tarball with this
approach.

>
> 2) The new set of PLplot Debian packages has been accepted in the
>    distribution.See message in:
>
>        http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2003/debian-devel-changes-200303/msg00420.html

Excellent news.  And I second your thanks to David for keeping this going
while you were otherwise engaged.  That is a long and impressive list of
Debian bug reports that this release addresses, and I expect the additional
bug reports from the Debian community on your new packages will be a great
benefit to PLplot as a whole.  Also, for this same reason I hope your
packages will shortly migrate to testing where there are many more Debian
users/testers.

Alan
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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).

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