[MINC-development] time for 1.1?

[Robert VINCENT]

Steve,

Funny you should mention automake.  I spent the last day or two working on
automake/autoconf scripts for MINC, blissfully unaware that anyone else
was looking into it.  I've got most of the code building now, but I
haven't looked at the the autotest stuff.

A new release sounds like a fine idea.  I'm willing to take responsibility
for it if you prefer!

	-bert

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Steve ROBBINS wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> While adding a function prototype to MINC, I had a look at the
> changelog.  It strikes me that a new release is in order.  Maybe
> we can make it an annual event!
>
> User-visible changes since 1.0 include:
>
> * Rawtominc has new "-skip" option, to allow skipping header information.
>
> * Mincstats option "-max_bins" renamed to "-int_max_bins", to avoid clash
>   with "-max".
>
> * Minccalc has new functions: tan, asin, acos, and atan.
>
>
> In addition, there have been some important bug fixes:
>
> * Jason fixed some 64-bit issues
> * John fixed a coredump in mincstats
> * I fixed a bug in handing inverted concatenated transforms
>
>
> I've also written manpages for each program that lacked one.
>
>
> I'd like to change MINC to use automake, and to normalize the
> building process a bit, e.g. deprecate setting NETCDF_PREFIX.
> There are two immediate benefits to using automake.  First,
> it comes with targets for building and checking a source distribution
> (make dist, make distcheck) which are really really handy.
> Second, it provides standard targets for regression / unit testing.
> I wrote a simple regression test when I fixed the transforms bug that
> I'd like to exercise with "make check".
>
> What say you?
>
> If there are no objections, I would volunteer to make the change to automake
> and drive this release forward.  (I'd also be more than happy to let someone
> else be the release manager!)
>
> January 16 is the anniversary of MINC 1.0, so I propose that as a target
> release date.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -Steve
>
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