The replacement for PGPlot is an interface layer called PG2PLplot that takes the PGPlot API and converts it into calls to PLPlot which is a LGPL, unencumbered system. The problem with conversion is that it doesn't convert everything, but getting it to convert everything and fixing the interface problems should about a month. In addition to the copyright issues, there seems to have been no development on PGPlot in over a decade, whereas PLplot is being actively developed.
Since Starlink has a special exception for PGplot, I'll work first on getting it packaged and I should be able to do it before the 10/15 version freeze deadline for Mageia. Once its packaged I'll work next on getting it working with the PG2PLplot interface layer. On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 6:21 PM, AL13N <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just a heads up about packaging starlink for linux distributions. I've > > gotten starlink to compile and link using native libraries on Mageia, and > > I've uploaded my changes to https://github.com/joequant/starlink. I > > haven't actually try to run any of the new executables, but one step at a > > time. > > > > The big bottleneck that I have right now is PGPLOT. The trouble is that > > PGPLOT seems to have a non-distro friendly non-commercial license that > > would prevent it from being added to linux distros. > > > > Fortunately, there is a drop in replacement for PGPLOT called pg2plplot > > which links against PLplot which unlike PGPLOT is actively being > > developed. Unfortunately there are a lot of additional calls that > haven't > > been implemented yet, > > > > this PGPLOT is a dependency? > > how unfriendly is this PGLPOT? non-redistributable? > > and how bad is this pg2plot? if it forks from PGPLOT, doesn't it have the > same license issues? > > and if it's a drop-in replacement, how can it have unimplemented calls? > >
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