-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2/6/12 2:32 PM, Robert Chatfield wrote: >> *: **GDL dependency on qhull via plplot broken* >> >> *From: *Robert Chatfield <robert.b.chatfi...@nasa.gov >> <mailto:robert.b.chatfi...@nasa.gov>> >> >> *Date: *February 6, 2012 11:32:41 AM PST >> >> *To: *Sebastien Maret <bma...@users.sourceforge.net >> <mailto:bma...@users.sourceforge.net>> *Cc: *Stefan Langerman >> <d...@slef.org <mailto:d...@slef.org>>, fink-de...@sourceforge.net >> <mailto:fink-de...@sourceforge.net> > > Hello, Sebastien. >
He's not _especially_ relevant to this issue. GDL carries no direct connection to qhull. > It looks as if there is a fairly easy fix that will allow gdl to > continue to work well. > > However, someone will probably need to put in qhull5 or qhull6 to > the plplot libary system, since qhull is no longer supported ... > > (also I don't see a maintainer for the plplot routines ... see > later attached quote below) > > libplplot10-shlibs > > (If one "simply" needs a modestly robust, free plotting > capability, these exist. R (cran-r) can do anything that IDL can, > although that would be a bit much to shape to GDL's needs. In fact, > I have a Mickey-Mouse system to take IDL save-files over to R via > NetCDF.) > > Thanks, Bob C > > PS: if you have also gone to MacPorts for an environment, please > let me know. I do understand Stefan Langerman's move, but MacPorts > is a bit more power (and attention) than I need. Bob C > > > >> Sorry, I have stopped maintaining the qhull fink package some >> time ago (using macports these days and I haven't needed qhull >> lately). Feel free to take over if you wish to. Stefan. >> And Stefan left a while back without even informing us of the fact, so I don't feel particularly like involving him in the conversation. This issue is simply that we wanted to get rid of the archaic qhull, and 'grep' missed seeing that there was still something that used it. An updated libplplot10* should be available for download soon. - -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk8wMOoACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ85PwCfYYlSB/6LmUd4XZCtdfKJf/EY pHUAn3YaQmfmvqMaqppEK1ml84DtGDz5 =e0lt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
