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From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2002-01-30 22:57:51
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Before getting to the interesting subject of this e-mail, I should note BTW, that I fooled around trying to get the native solaris compiler to work on that compile farm machine this morning. It was incredibly slow taking minutes to compile a "hello world" programme. Finally, after two frustrating hours I got a message that the cc license-server was dead! Since my working environment is Microsoft free, I never thought I would have to contend with such licensing issues, but Sun proved me wrong....GRRH! Anyhow, I will just rely on whatever solaris native compiler testing others here have done. For the solaris/gcc tests from yesterday, the 10 plmeta file differences for solaris compile farm versus Debian woody were hard to see when I compared results visually using plrender -dev xwin. And similarly for the 4 postscript file differences. Therefore, I judge this particular solaris/gcc test as successful, and =======>that completes the testing<========= Now the actual release process begins. I CVS tagged this version as v5_1_0_final. The only difference between v5_1_0_final and v5_1_0_rc2 was the plplot-config.in bugfix. v5_1_0_final is just being uploaded to the file release area as I write this, and will probably appear there (taking into account server delays) in an hour or so. There is a lot to talk about for this release so it will take me a while to put the announcement together which you will probably see on plplot_general late this evening or even tomorrow. I want to thank all of you who contributed so much to this release with extensive development over the last 7 months as well as extensive bug fixing and cross-platform testing over the last several weeks. I believe this will be a release we can all be proud of. Alan email: ir...@be... phone: 250-727-2902 FAX: 250-721-7715 snail-mail: Dr. Alan W. Irwin Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P6 __________________________ Linux-powered astrophysics __________________________ |
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From: Rafael L. <lab...@mp...> - 2002-01-31 12:49:13
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Congratulations, Alan. I hope I will be more active next time. -- Rafael |
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From: Geoffrey F. <fu...@ga...> - 2002-01-31 21:30:38
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Alan W. Irwin writes: > Before getting to the interesting subject of this e-mail, I should note BTW, > that I fooled around trying to get the native solaris compiler to work on > that compile farm machine this morning. It was incredibly slow taking > minutes to compile a "hello world" programme. Finally, after two > frustrating hours I got a message that the cc license-server was dead! Since > my working environment is Microsoft free, I never thought I would have to > contend with such licensing issues, but Sun proved me wrong....GRRH! Unix commercial software is often, even usually controlled by a license daemon. The KCC C++ compiler I use is that way, purify is that way, Sun, SGI, HP compilers are all that way, the CAD tools we use at Lightspeed, etc. In the old days there used to be a plethora of licensing managers, but there seems to have been a consolidation so that by now pretty much all Unix licensed software is using the Globetrotter "FLexLM" license manager. Oh, the PGI tools on Linux are also controlled by FlexLM. Mmm, and also the Intel C/C++ compiler for Linux, which is generating rave reviews these days. You've just been getting spoiled through your OSS immersion :-). > I want to thank all of you who contributed so much to this release with > extensive development over the last 7 months as well as extensive bug fixing > and cross-platform testing over the last several weeks. > > I believe this will be a release we can all be proud of. And Alan, we all deeply appreciate the great energy that you have put into the release management process. I'm looking forward to the final public announcement of 5.1.0, before initiating my next PLplot undertaking. -- Geoffrey Furnish fu...@ga... |
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From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2002-01-31 23:23:05
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Geoffrey Furnish wrote: > You've just been getting spoiled through your OSS immersion :-). And loving every minute of it....;-) > > And Alan, we all deeply appreciate the great energy that you have put > into the release management process. And I thank all the developers for their hard work. There have been 500+ commits since the last release. Not bad! > > I'm looking forward to the final public announcement of 5.1.0, before > initiating my next PLplot undertaking. There is no need to wait. I have been distracted today by file releasing the rpm's. As part of my RH-7.1 testing I made rpm's for that distribution so that was straightforward. But in addition Conrad Steenberg (my co-developer for yplot) has just come through with rpm's for Mandrake 8.1 which I have been checking in detail for any problems with the file list, scripts, dependencies, etc. Those Mandrake rpm's should appear shortly in our file release area. For those with Mandrake 8.1 or RedHat 7.1, I would appreciate you giving those rpm's a spin. Also, if somebody could come through with SuSe rpm's those would be most appreciated as well. Next week I hope to make RH 7.2 rpm's when our astrogroup computers are converted from RH 7.1 to 7.2. Also, Rafael has told me he will use his next chance to work on free software to Debian package 5.1.0 (although no promises yet on when this will occur). I think that effort is really important because Debian users are especially helpful with bug reports, and it is great publicity for us to have PLplot-5.1.0 a standard part of a major distribution. I hope to get out the 5.1.0 release announcement tonight, but that won't happen immediately because I am skimming through all those commit messages to make sure I have not forgotten anything important. Alan |
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