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[Plplot-devel] Soft freeze on December 3rd and release on December 17th?

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

Tom Schoonjans made some good points on plplot-general about
officially releasing timely fixes for PLplot rather than expecting
packagers and others to dig those out of git, and I also feel it is
critical to give our users good access to the recent big improvements
in both our Fortran and Tcl bindings.  So to answer these concerns my
plan is to release PLplot-5.12.0 on ********** December 17th **********.
That is roughly the last release date possible in December without
intruding on Christmas holiday time, and I don't want to put off this
release until January for the above reasons.

Note, I don't want the release any sooner than the above date because
there are a lot of (fairly minor) topics I am still working on that I
would like to get into this release.  Therefore, I plan to continue
working on those topics for the rest of this week and the next one and
declare a soft freeze (where only minor bug fixing and documentation
improvements should occur after that freeze date until the release) on
********** December 3rd **********. That freeze date should give us
two weeks for extensive testing of PLplot (and fixing all bugs that
are turned up by such testing) on all platforms accessible to PLplot
developers and users.  (Note, I do plan to ask our users on
plplot-general to help with testing during those two critical weeks on
the platforms accessible to them.)

Please speak out if either of the two dates above need an adjustment
from your perspective.  For example, another freeze date alternative
could be December 10th (which still gives us the minimum one week of
time we need for testing).  But that freeze date would be completely
inflexible, and I would prefer a more flexible freeze date (to
accommodate last-minute requests to change it for those developers who
discover they need a few more days to get their topics merged) which
is why I have suggested December 3rd as the freeze date.

If nobody has any suggestions for changes in the above two critical
dates by (say) late Wednesday I will follow up by announcing the above
two critical dates on PLplot-general.

Alan (your friendly release manager).
__________________________
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); the Time
Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
software package (plplot.sf.net); 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
__________________________

Re: [Plplot-devel] Soft freeze on December 3rd and release on December17th?

[Pedro V. <ped...@sp...>]

Hi Alan
Those dates look good to me, and I will investigate my 3 thread issues 
(wxWidgets, Qt, error messages ) well before the freezing date
-Pedro

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan W. Irwin" <ir...@be...>
To: "PLplot development list" <Plp...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2016 7:50 PM
Subject: [Plplot-devel] Soft freeze on December 3rd and release on 
December17th?


> Tom Schoonjans made some good points on plplot-general about
> officially releasing timely fixes for PLplot rather than expecting
> packagers and others to dig those out of git, and I also feel it is
> critical to give our users good access to the recent big improvements
> in both our Fortran and Tcl bindings.  So to answer these concerns my
> plan is to release PLplot-5.12.0 on ********** December 17th **********.
> That is roughly the last release date possible in December without
> intruding on Christmas holiday time, and I don't want to put off this
> release until January for the above reasons.
>
> Note, I don't want the release any sooner than the above date because
> there are a lot of (fairly minor) topics I am still working on that I
> would like to get into this release.  Therefore, I plan to continue
> working on those topics for the rest of this week and the next one and
> declare a soft freeze (where only minor bug fixing and documentation
> improvements should occur after that freeze date until the release) on
> ********** December 3rd **********. That freeze date should give us
> two weeks for extensive testing of PLplot (and fixing all bugs that
> are turned up by such testing) on all platforms accessible to PLplot
> developers and users.  (Note, I do plan to ask our users on
> plplot-general to help with testing during those two critical weeks on
> the platforms accessible to them.)
>
> Please speak out if either of the two dates above need an adjustment
> from your perspective.  For example, another freeze date alternative
> could be December 10th (which still gives us the minimum one week of
> time we need for testing).  But that freeze date would be completely
> inflexible, and I would prefer a more flexible freeze date (to
> accommodate last-minute requests to change it for those developers who
> discover they need a few more days to get their topics merged) which
> is why I have suggested December 3rd as the freeze date.
>
> If nobody has any suggestions for changes in the above two critical
> dates by (say) late Wednesday I will follow up by announcing the above
> two critical dates on PLplot-general.
>
> Alan (your friendly release manager).
> __________________________
> 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); the Time
> Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
> software package (plplot.sf.net); 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
> __________________________
>
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Re: [Plplot-devel] Soft freeze on December 3rd and release on December17th?

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

On 2016-11-22 20:21-0500 Pedro Vicente wrote:

> Hi Alan
> Those dates look good to me, and I will investigate my 3 thread issues 
> (wxWidgets, Qt, error messages ) well before the freezing date

Hi Pedro:

Glad those dates work out for you.

If as a result of your investigations you have a PLplot change you
would like to suggest, then an ordinary compressed patch (which can be
generated by "git diff" and "gzip") is an OK way for you to communicate
that change to us (as an attachment to your post to this mailing list), but
ideally to give you credit for the actual commit we suggest you use
"git format-patch" (and "gzip") instead.

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); the Time
Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
software package (plplot.sf.net); 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
__________________________

Re: [Plplot-devel] Soft freeze on December 3rd and release on December 17th?

[Pedro V. <ped...@sp...>]

Hi Alan

I get an error on the script

ERROR: cmake in the build tree failed

what I did (CentOS 6.8)

git clone http://git.code.sf.net/p/plplot/plplot plplot-plplot
cd plplot-plplot/scripts
./comprehensive_test.sh


then I tried

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

and I get a compiling error , below
it seems it's related to wxwidgets-3.1.0 library

Note:

1)

>>>Essentially all you have to do is set up
>>>the relevant environment variables that you normally use to build 
>>> PLplot


I never did set any environment variables to build PLplot before, which 
ones?

2)

I just used
cmake ..
with no options

usually I do with options (no problems) but I just wanted to try like 
this

I can provide further debug output, let me know to which email address 
should I send to

error is


[ 16%] Building C object src/CMakeFiles/plplot.dir/__/drivers/xfig.c.o
[ 16%] Building C object src/CMakeFiles/plplot.dir/__/drivers/xwin.c.o
[ 17%] Linking CXX shared library libplplot.so
/usr/bin/ld: 
/data/data127/pvicente/install/wxwidgets-3.1.0/lib/libwx_gtk2u_core-3.1.a(corelib_event.o): 
relocation R_X86_64_32 against `wxCommandEvent::ms_classInfo' can not 
be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/data/data127/pvicente/install/wxwidgets-3.1.0/lib/libwx_gtk2u_core-3.1.a: 
could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [src/libplplot.so.13.1.2] Error 1
make[1]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/plplot.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2





On 2016-11-22 19:50, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> Tom Schoonjans made some good points on plplot-general about
> officially releasing timely fixes for PLplot rather than expecting
> packagers and others to dig those out of git, and I also feel it is
> critical to give our users good access to the recent big improvements
> in both our Fortran and Tcl bindings.  So to answer these concerns my
> plan is to release PLplot-5.12.0 on ********** December 17th 
> **********.
> That is roughly the last release date possible in December without
> intruding on Christmas holiday time, and I don't want to put off this
> release until January for the above reasons.
>
> Note, I don't want the release any sooner than the above date because
> there are a lot of (fairly minor) topics I am still working on that I
> would like to get into this release.  Therefore, I plan to continue
> working on those topics for the rest of this week and the next one 
> and
> declare a soft freeze (where only minor bug fixing and documentation
> improvements should occur after that freeze date until the release) 
> on
> ********** December 3rd **********. That freeze date should give us
> two weeks for extensive testing of PLplot (and fixing all bugs that
> are turned up by such testing) on all platforms accessible to PLplot
> developers and users.  (Note, I do plan to ask our users on
> plplot-general to help with testing during those two critical weeks 
> on
> the platforms accessible to them.)
>
> Please speak out if either of the two dates above need an adjustment
> from your perspective.  For example, another freeze date alternative
> could be December 10th (which still gives us the minimum one week of
> time we need for testing).  But that freeze date would be completely
> inflexible, and I would prefer a more flexible freeze date (to
> accommodate last-minute requests to change it for those developers 
> who
> discover they need a few more days to get their topics merged) which
> is why I have suggested December 3rd as the freeze date.
>
> If nobody has any suggestions for changes in the above two critical
> dates by (say) late Wednesday I will follow up by announcing the 
> above
> two critical dates on PLplot-general.
>
> Alan (your friendly release manager).
> __________________________
> 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); the Time
> Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
> software package (plplot.sf.net); 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
> __________________________
>
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> _______________________________________________
> Plplot-devel mailing list
> Plp...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel

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Re: [Plplot-devel] Soft freeze on December 3rd and release on December 17th?

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

On 2016-12-09 11:38-0500 Pedro Vicente wrote:

>
> Hi Alan
>
> I get an error on the script
>
> ERROR: cmake in the build tree failed
>
> what I did (CentOS 6.8)
>
> git clone http://git.code.sf.net/p/plplot/plplot plplot-plplot
> cd plplot-plplot/scripts
> ./comprehensive_test.sh

Please look in the prefix directory  (by default that is
../comprehensive_test_disposable relative to the top
of the source tree) for the report tarball, comprehensive_test.tar.gz,
and send that tarball (on or off list) to me.  That should allow me to
find out why that cmake invocation failed for you, and give you
some recommendations about running this test again.


> then I tried
>
> mkdir build
> cd build
> cmake ..
> make

This is already a big difference with your comprehensive test result
above because cmake succeeded here but not there.  But I will know
a lot more once I receive the above report tarball from you that
is generated by the comprehensive test.

> Note:
>
> 1)
>
>>>> Essentially all you have to do is set up
>>>> the relevant environment variables that you normally use to build
>>>> PLplot
>
>
> I never did set any environment variables to build PLplot before, which
> ones?

It depends on your individual needs.  I like to test PLplot with certain
compiler options so I typically set

export CFLAGS='-O3 -fvisibility=hidden -Wuninitialized'
export CXXFLAGS='-O3 -fvisibility=hidden -Wuninitialized'
export FFLAGS='-O3 -Wuninitialized -Wunused'

But when debugging issues I reduce those to

export CFLAGS='-g'
export CXXFLAGS='-g'
export FFLAGS='-g'

Also, I generally find setting the environment variables PATH, 
CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH, CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH, and PKG_CONFIG_PATH are often
a big help if cmake is having trouble finding software installed in
non-standard locations.

> I can provide further debug output, let me know to which email address
> should I send to

I would prefer to work with your results for the comprehensive test
script since that often supplies me with all the information I need to
answer your questions.  In this case, that script did not get very far
the first time you invoked it, but once I see that report tarball, I
can likely advise you what simple fix to make so that cmake completes
without errors, which means your next comprehensive test run should
get to this current build problem concerning wxwidgets with all the
information I need, and we can take it from there.

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); the Time
Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
software package (plplot.sf.net); 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
__________________________

Re: [Plplot-devel] Soft freeze on December 3rd and release on December 17th?

[Pedro V. <ped...@sp...>]

Hi Alan

comprehensive_test.tar.gz is attached


> export CFLAGS='-g'
> export CXXFLAGS='-g'
> export FFLAGS='-g'


ok, I see I thought you meant environment variables specific  for PLplot to 
build.
These are gcc compiler flags, personally I never set them this way, but 
instead I do it for each makefile.

In this build they are the above  environment variables

thanks

-Pedro


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan W. Irwin" <ir...@be...>
To: "Pedro Vicente" <ped...@sp...>
Cc: <plp...@li...>
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2016 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] Soft freeze on December 3rd and release on 
December 17th?


> On 2016-12-09 11:38-0500 Pedro Vicente wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Alan
>>
>> I get an error on the script
>>
>> ERROR: cmake in the build tree failed
>>
>> what I did (CentOS 6.8)
>>
>> git clone http://git.code.sf.net/p/plplot/plplot plplot-plplot
>> cd plplot-plplot/scripts
>> ./comprehensive_test.sh
>
> Please look in the prefix directory  (by default that is
> ../comprehensive_test_disposable relative to the top
> of the source tree) for the report tarball, comprehensive_test.tar.gz,
> and send that tarball (on or off list) to me.  That should allow me to
> find out why that cmake invocation failed for you, and give you
> some recommendations about running this test again.
>
>
>> then I tried
>>
>> mkdir build
>> cd build
>> cmake ..
>> make
>
> This is already a big difference with your comprehensive test result
> above because cmake succeeded here but not there.  But I will know
> a lot more once I receive the above report tarball from you that
> is generated by the comprehensive test.
>
>> Note:
>>
>> 1)
>>
>>>>> Essentially all you have to do is set up
>>>>> the relevant environment variables that you normally use to build
>>>>> PLplot
>>
>>
>> I never did set any environment variables to build PLplot before, which
>> ones?
>
> It depends on your individual needs.  I like to test PLplot with certain
> compiler options so I typically set
>
> export CFLAGS='-O3 -fvisibility=hidden -Wuninitialized'
> export CXXFLAGS='-O3 -fvisibility=hidden -Wuninitialized'
> export FFLAGS='-O3 -Wuninitialized -Wunused'
>
> But when debugging issues I reduce those to
>
> export CFLAGS='-g'
> export CXXFLAGS='-g'
> export FFLAGS='-g'
>
> Also, I generally find setting the environment variables PATH, 
> CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH, CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH, and PKG_CONFIG_PATH are often
> a big help if cmake is having trouble finding software installed in
> non-standard locations.
>
>> I can provide further debug output, let me know to which email address
>> should I send to
>
> I would prefer to work with your results for the comprehensive test
> script since that often supplies me with all the information I need to
> answer your questions.  In this case, that script did not get very far
> the first time you invoked it, but once I see that report tarball, I
> can likely advise you what simple fix to make so that cmake completes
> without errors, which means your next comprehensive test run should
> get to this current build problem concerning wxwidgets with all the
> information I need, and we can take it from there.
>
> 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); the Time
> Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
> software package (plplot.sf.net); 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
> __________________________
> 

Re: [Plplot-devel] Soft freeze on December 3rd and release on December 17th?

[Pedro V. <ped...@sp...>]

ok, simple issue , ignore

I tool a quick look at the ouput , it's just


CMake 3.0.2 or higher is required.  You are running version 2.8.12.2


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan W. Irwin" <ir...@be...>
To: "Pedro Vicente" <ped...@sp...>
Cc: <plp...@li...>
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2016 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] Soft freeze on December 3rd and release on 
December 17th?


> On 2016-12-09 11:38-0500 Pedro Vicente wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Alan
>>
>> I get an error on the script
>>
>> ERROR: cmake in the build tree failed
>>
>> what I did (CentOS 6.8)
>>
>> git clone http://git.code.sf.net/p/plplot/plplot plplot-plplot
>> cd plplot-plplot/scripts
>> ./comprehensive_test.sh
>
> Please look in the prefix directory  (by default that is
> ../comprehensive_test_disposable relative to the top
> of the source tree) for the report tarball, comprehensive_test.tar.gz,
> and send that tarball (on or off list) to me.  That should allow me to
> find out why that cmake invocation failed for you, and give you
> some recommendations about running this test again.
>
>
>> then I tried
>>
>> mkdir build
>> cd build
>> cmake ..
>> make
>
> This is already a big difference with your comprehensive test result
> above because cmake succeeded here but not there.  But I will know
> a lot more once I receive the above report tarball from you that
> is generated by the comprehensive test.
>
>> Note:
>>
>> 1)
>>
>>>>> Essentially all you have to do is set up
>>>>> the relevant environment variables that you normally use to build
>>>>> PLplot
>>
>>
>> I never did set any environment variables to build PLplot before, which
>> ones?
>
> It depends on your individual needs.  I like to test PLplot with certain
> compiler options so I typically set
>
> export CFLAGS='-O3 -fvisibility=hidden -Wuninitialized'
> export CXXFLAGS='-O3 -fvisibility=hidden -Wuninitialized'
> export FFLAGS='-O3 -Wuninitialized -Wunused'
>
> But when debugging issues I reduce those to
>
> export CFLAGS='-g'
> export CXXFLAGS='-g'
> export FFLAGS='-g'
>
> Also, I generally find setting the environment variables PATH, 
> CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH, CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH, and PKG_CONFIG_PATH are often
> a big help if cmake is having trouble finding software installed in
> non-standard locations.
>
>> I can provide further debug output, let me know to which email address
>> should I send to
>
> I would prefer to work with your results for the comprehensive test
> script since that often supplies me with all the information I need to
> answer your questions.  In this case, that script did not get very far
> the first time you invoked it, but once I see that report tarball, I
> can likely advise you what simple fix to make so that cmake completes
> without errors, which means your next comprehensive test run should
> get to this current build problem concerning wxwidgets with all the
> information I need, and we can take it from there.
>
> 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); the Time
> Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
> software package (plplot.sf.net); 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
> __________________________
> 

Re: [Plplot-devel] Soft freeze on December 3rd and release on December 17th?

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

On 2016-12-09 18:02-0500 Pedro Vicente wrote:

> ok, simple issue , ignore
>
> I tool a quick look at the ouput , it's just
>
>
> CMake 3.0.2 or higher is required.  You are running version 2.8.12.2

OK.  So please fix that (run scripts/comprehensive_test.sh --help to
see how to specify the cmake command exactly). Once you run
scripts/comprehensive_test.sh with the correct cmake, then as I
suggested before please follow up by sending me the report tarball to
help figure out what is wrong for the wxwidgets case on CentOS.

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); the Time
Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
software package (plplot.sf.net); 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
__________________________

Re: [Plplot-devel] Soft freeze on December 3rd and release on December 17th?

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

On 2016-12-10 05:08-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> On 2016-12-09 18:02-0500 Pedro Vicente wrote:
>
>> ok, simple issue , ignore
>>
>> I tool a quick look at the ouput , it's just
>>
>>
>> CMake 3.0.2 or higher is required.  You are running version 2.8.12.2
>
> OK.  So please fix that (run scripts/comprehensive_test.sh --help to
> see how to specify the cmake command exactly). Once you run
> scripts/comprehensive_test.sh with the correct cmake, then as I
> suggested before please follow up by sending me the report tarball to
> help figure out what is wrong for the wxwidgets case on CentOS.

Never mind.  I should have checked my incoming mail first to see you
have gone another way.  But in general, creating a report tarball is
a good way to report errors since it gives all sorts of details that
otherwise are a pain to collect consistently for an error report.

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); the Time
Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
software package (plplot.sf.net); 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
__________________________