From: Hazen B. <hba...@ma...> - 2009-11-07 21:30:53
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What are the remaining projects for the next release? On my list I have: (1) Expand the plot settings covered by plget & plset. (2) (a) OS-X and (b) Windows backends for the cairo driver. My OS-X box is getting pretty old (PPC, 10.4) so if someone else is interested in taking on 2a that would be appreciated. I'd guess it will be at least 1-2 months before this release. -Hazen |
From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2009-11-08 00:59:33
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On 2009-11-07 16:30-0500 Hazen Babcock wrote: > > What are the remaining projects for the next release? > > On my list I have: > (1) Expand the plot settings covered by plget & plset. > (2) (a) OS-X and (b) Windows backends for the cairo driver. (3) Complete test_interactive target. (4) Complete time stuff. > I'd guess it will be at least 1-2 months before this release. At least. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.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). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ |
From: Hazen B. <hba...@ma...> - 2010-03-18 01:49:15
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Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2009-11-07 16:30-0500 Hazen Babcock wrote: > >> What are the remaining projects for the next release? >> >> On my list I have: >> (1) Expand the plot settings covered by plget & plset. >> (2) (a) OS-X and (b) Windows backends for the cairo driver. > > (3) Complete test_interactive target. > > (4) Complete time stuff. Since I have accomplished part of 2b in the last 4 months I feel it is time to bring up the subject of another release :). Seriously though it has been more than 6 months since the last release, lots of improvements have been made in the meantime and I'm starting to feel like a release is overdue. I'll throw out the end of April as a target date. Thoughts? -Hazen |
From: David M. <da...@as...> - 2010-03-18 04:31:11
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On Mar 17, 2010, at 18:48 , Hazen Babcock wrote: > Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> On 2009-11-07 16:30-0500 Hazen Babcock wrote: >> >>> What are the remaining projects for the next release? >>> >>> On my list I have: >>> (1) Expand the plot settings covered by plget & plset. >>> (2) (a) OS-X and (b) Windows backends for the cairo driver. >> >> (3) Complete test_interactive target. >> >> (4) Complete time stuff. > > Since I have accomplished part of 2b in the last 4 months I feel it is > time to bring up the subject of another release :). Sounds good to me! I have been using the cairo driver some on Mac OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger) using a pango/cairo stack installed via MacPorts and it seems to work great since r10793. Once I update README.release with my results, does that count as checking off 2a? Dave |
From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2010-03-18 05:40:11
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On 2010-03-17 21:48-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> On 2009-11-07 16:30-0500 Hazen Babcock wrote: >> >>> What are the remaining projects for the next release? >>> >>> On my list I have: >>> (1) Expand the plot settings covered by plget & plset. >>> (2) (a) OS-X and (b) Windows backends for the cairo driver. >> >> (3) Complete test_interactive target. >> >> (4) Complete time stuff. > > Since I have accomplished part of 2b in the last 4 months I feel it is time > to bring up the subject of another release :). Seriously though it has been > more than 6 months since the last release, lots of improvements have been > made in the meantime and I'm starting to feel like a release is overdue. I'll > throw out the end of April as a target date. Thoughts? Here is the status of my work. I have completed (3) above although with some interactive examples excluded for now because of bugs which I reported to the bugtracker. I still have two things left on my agenda (polygon fill algorithm improvements and the time improvements mentioned as (4) above), but I plan to spend quite a bit of time on FreeEOS in the next 4 months so these PLplot projects will likely be put off until some time after the present release. It is probably an obvious point, but just to state it explicitly, I think this release should be a development release not only because of my unfinished business but a lot of other unfinished business as well. Despite this unfinished business, I definitely agree it is time for a development release, and the end of April is fine with me. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.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). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ |
From: Hezekiah M. C. <hez...@us...> - 2010-03-19 02:55:10
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On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Hazen Babcock <hba...@ma...> wrote: > Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> On 2009-11-07 16:30-0500 Hazen Babcock wrote: >> >>> What are the remaining projects for the next release? >>> >>> On my list I have: >>> (1) Expand the plot settings covered by plget & plset. >>> (2) (a) OS-X and (b) Windows backends for the cairo driver. >> >> (3) Complete test_interactive target. >> >> (4) Complete time stuff. > > Since I have accomplished part of 2b in the last 4 months I feel it is > time to bring up the subject of another release :). Seriously though it > has been more than 6 months since the last release, lots of improvements > have been made in the meantime and I'm starting to feel like a release > is overdue. I'll throw out the end of April as a target date. Thoughts? > The end of April sounds good to me. I would like to complete the OCaml work that I have postponed for several months now, as well as complete the work I have done on getting universal coordinate transform support up and running in PLplot, at least to the point where initial support can be included in a release. I expect that we will need another development release (5.9.7) after this to allow time for the recent changes to settle out, particularly with the large API additions which have occurred since 5.9.5. Hez |
From: Hazen B. <hba...@ma...> - 2010-03-18 14:27:49
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David MacMahon wrote: > On Mar 17, 2010, at 18:48 , Hazen Babcock wrote: > >> Alan W. Irwin wrote: >>> On 2009-11-07 16:30-0500 Hazen Babcock wrote: >>> >>>> What are the remaining projects for the next release? >>>> >>>> On my list I have: >>>> (1) Expand the plot settings covered by plget & plset. >>>> (2) (a) OS-X and (b) Windows backends for the cairo driver. >>> (3) Complete test_interactive target. >>> >>> (4) Complete time stuff. >> Since I have accomplished part of 2b in the last 4 months I feel it is >> time to bring up the subject of another release :). > > Sounds good to me! I have been using the cairo driver some on Mac OS > X 10.4.11 (Tiger) using a pango/cairo stack installed via MacPorts > and it seems to work great since r10793. Once I update > README.release with my results, does that count as checking off 2a? Unfortunately not, the goal is a cairo Quartz driver: http://cairographics.org/manual/cairo-quartz-surface.html -Hazen |
From: David M. <da...@as...> - 2010-03-18 15:54:08
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On Mar 18, 2010, at 7:27 , Hazen Babcock wrote: > David MacMahon wrote: >> On Mar 17, 2010, at 18:48 , Hazen Babcock wrote: >> >>> Alan W. Irwin wrote: >>>> On 2009-11-07 16:30-0500 Hazen Babcock wrote: >>>>> (2) (a) OS-X and (b) Windows backends for the cairo driver. >> >> Sounds good to me! I have been using the cairo driver some on Mac OS >> X 10.4.11 (Tiger) using a pango/cairo stack installed via MacPorts >> and it seems to work great since r10793. Once I update >> README.release with my results, does that count as checking off 2a? > > Unfortunately not, the goal is a cairo Quartz driver: > http://cairographics.org/manual/cairo-quartz-surface.html Sounds good, but yeah I've been using the xcairo device. It sounds like we need a new "quartzcario" device (or maybe the shorter "qcairo" name would be better). I don't think we'd ever have a "qtcairo" driver, so there shouldn't be too much confusion. FWIW, MacPorts can install cairo with support for the quartz surface (by enabling the "quartz" variant)... $ grep CAIRO_HAS_QUARTZ_SURFACE /opt/local/include/cairo/cairo- features.h #define CAIRO_HAS_QUARTZ_SURFACE 1 I don't know enough about mac development to drive this effort, but I'd be happy to test and/or help out! Dave |
From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2010-03-18 20:02:51
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On 2010-03-18 08:53-0700 David MacMahon wrote: > I don't know enough about mac development to drive this [quartz cairo device] effort, but > I'd be happy to test and/or help out! Just to remark on how the test suite can be used for this purpose, if the directions in drivers/README.drivers are followed when Hazen adds the quartz cairo device, then (assuming he decides to call that device qcairo) both the test_c_qcairo target and the test_octave_qcairo targets will automatically be added to the new test suite for those users (i.e., Mac OS X users) with access to quartz. Here are the interactive device test targets we currently have for C and Octave: ... test_c_qtwidget ... test_c_tk ... test_c_wxwidgets ... test_c_xcairo ... test_c_xwin ... test_octave_qtwidget ... test_octave_tk ... test_octave_wxwidgets ... test_octave_xcairo ... test_octave_xwin The C ones are fine and therefore have been made dependencies of the test_interactive target (i.e., will be run whenever you execute "make test_interactive" on Unix or the Windows equivalent of that on Windows platforms). Of the octave ones, only test_octave_qtwidget works properly now (but just for a subset of the Octave "p" examples). I have given details of all the Octave bugs and interactive device incompatibilities on the bugtracker. As soon as those issues are resolved, then I plan to make all the test_octave_* targets dependencies of the test_interactive target just like their test_c_* interactive test target counterparts. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.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). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ |
From: Hazen B. <hba...@ma...> - 2010-04-28 19:52:06
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Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Hazen Babcock <hba...@ma...> wrote: >> Alan W. Irwin wrote: >>> On 2009-11-07 16:30-0500 Hazen Babcock wrote: >>> >>>> What are the remaining projects for the next release? >>>> >>>> On my list I have: >>>> (1) Expand the plot settings covered by plget & plset. >>>> (2) (a) OS-X and (b) Windows backends for the cairo driver. >>> (3) Complete test_interactive target. >>> >>> (4) Complete time stuff. >> Since I have accomplished part of 2b in the last 4 months I feel it is >> time to bring up the subject of another release :). Seriously though it >> has been more than 6 months since the last release, lots of improvements >> have been made in the meantime and I'm starting to feel like a release >> is overdue. I'll throw out the end of April as a target date. Thoughts? >> > > The end of April sounds good to me. I would like to complete the > OCaml work that I have postponed for several months now, as well as > complete the work I have done on getting universal coordinate > transform support up and running in PLplot, at least to the point > where initial support can be included in a release. Based on some off-list conversations about what people want to get done before the next release, it looks like the (tentative) release date is going to get pushed back a few more weeks to mid-May or early June. > I expect that we will need another development release (5.9.7) after > this to allow time for the recent changes to settle out, particularly > with the large API additions which have occurred since 5.9.5. Agreed. We should probably stick mostly to bug fixes and clean-up until after we get through 5.9.7 (August?) and 5.10.0 (October?). So testing, documentation and updating the Wiki would all be good ideas :). -Hazen |
From: Hazen B. <hba...@ma...> - 2010-05-12 16:52:14
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Hazen Babcock wrote: >> The end of April sounds good to me. I would like to complete the >> OCaml work that I have postponed for several months now, as well as >> complete the work I have done on getting universal coordinate >> transform support up and running in PLplot, at least to the point >> where initial support can be included in a release. > > Based on some off-list conversations about what people want to get done > before the next release, it looks like the (tentative) release date is > going to get pushed back a few more weeks to mid-May or early June. And further conversations have led to a tentative release date of 29-30 of May. Hopefully everyone is comfortable with that. -Hazen |
From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2010-05-12 17:34:54
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On 2010-05-12 12:52-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > Hazen Babcock wrote: >>> The end of April sounds good to me. I would like to complete the >>> OCaml work that I have postponed for several months now, as well as >>> complete the work I have done on getting universal coordinate >>> transform support up and running in PLplot, at least to the point >>> where initial support can be included in a release. >> >> Based on some off-list conversations about what people want to get done >> before the next release, it looks like the (tentative) release date is >> going to get pushed back a few more weeks to mid-May or early June. > > And further conversations have led to a tentative release date of 29-30 > of May. Hopefully everyone is comfortable with that. That weekend for the release works for me, and I hope it works for everyone else as well. I especially appreciate that 2.5 weeks notice of the specific weekend of the release since that should give everyone the necessary time to test everything on the various platforms accessible to them, fix any lingering bugs they find due to that testing, etc. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.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). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ |
From: Hezekiah M. C. <hez...@us...> - 2010-05-12 17:36:08
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On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Hazen Babcock <hba...@ma...> wrote: > Hazen Babcock wrote: >> Based on some off-list conversations about what people want to get done >> before the next release, it looks like the (tentative) release date is >> going to get pushed back a few more weeks to mid-May or early June. > > And further conversations have led to a tentative release date of 29-30 > of May. Hopefully everyone is comfortable with that. > That and the tentative August 5.9.7 and October 5.10.0 release dates work for me. Hez |
From: Andrew R. <and...@us...> - 2010-05-12 19:07:16
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On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 01:35:47PM -0400, Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Hazen Babcock <hba...@ma...> wrote: > > Hazen Babcock wrote: > >> Based on some off-list conversations about what people want to get done > >> before the next release, it looks like the (tentative) release date is > >> going to get pushed back a few more weeks to mid-May or early June. > > > > And further conversations have led to a tentative release date of 29-30 > > of May. Hopefully everyone is comfortable with that. > > > > That and the tentative August 5.9.7 and October 5.10.0 release dates > work for me. I'm happy with that as well. Andrew |
From: Hazen B. <hba...@ma...> - 2010-05-13 14:50:10
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Hazen Babcock wrote: > Hazen Babcock wrote: >>> The end of April sounds good to me. I would like to complete the >>> OCaml work that I have postponed for several months now, as well as >>> complete the work I have done on getting universal coordinate >>> transform support up and running in PLplot, at least to the point >>> where initial support can be included in a release. >> Based on some off-list conversations about what people want to get done >> before the next release, it looks like the (tentative) release date is >> going to get pushed back a few more weeks to mid-May or early June. > > And further conversations have led to a tentative release date of 29-30 > of May. Hopefully everyone is comfortable with that. I just realized that that weekend in Memorial Day weekend, which is not going to work for me. Hopefully the following weekend (6/5 - 6/6) is also acceptable. -Hazen |
From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2010-05-13 16:54:50
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On 2010-05-13 10:49-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > Hazen Babcock wrote: >> Hazen Babcock wrote: >>>> The end of April sounds good to me. I would like to complete the >>>> OCaml work that I have postponed for several months now, as well as >>>> complete the work I have done on getting universal coordinate >>>> transform support up and running in PLplot, at least to the point >>>> where initial support can be included in a release. >>> Based on some off-list conversations about what people want to get done >>> before the next release, it looks like the (tentative) release date is >>> going to get pushed back a few more weeks to mid-May or early June. >> >> And further conversations have led to a tentative release date of 29-30 >> of May. Hopefully everyone is comfortable with that. > > I just realized that that weekend in Memorial Day weekend, which is not > going to work for me. Hopefully the following weekend (6/5 - 6/6) is > also acceptable. That's fine with me, and I am sure nobody else will object to an extra week for testing/debugging of this release. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.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). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ |