On 2006-10-07 22:48-0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Oct 1, 2006, at 5:24 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > >> improvements there. The current weak spot is Mac OS X, but I am sure >> Hazen >> (with some help from Per and Koen) should be able to straighten that out >> to >> achieve a full-featured PLplot on that platform. I presume a month or so > > OS-X PLplot has, to my knowledge, all the features that it had in ABS, but > that is perhaps too low of a bar? Anyway, I've added a page reflecting the > current status to the wiki. > > Did anyone ever use PLplot with Tcl/Tk on OS-X? If so could you please let me > know the versions, etc...
Koen, will you comment here about the current status of our ABS and CBS? >From what I remember of your reported experiments everything worked previously under our ABS including running the installed examples. According to Hazen's report in the above wiki about our CBS status on Mac OS X, Tcl/Tk does not build, and Java and octave build, but the Java and octave examples do not work. So if I am remembering the ABS status properly, there is obviously work to do on our CBS for Mac OS X. > [...]I feel that ABS worked fine for most of > what our users wanted from PLplot, i.e. a C/Fortran plotting library. > Unless/until ABS rots to the point that it is no longer able to build the > core libraries & drivers I don't see a good reason not to release with it. > Sure the ABS files make it bigger for those who choose to use cmake, but > since most platforms have ABS by default, it spares the end user the hassle > of installing/learning what is not yet a standard configuration system. If > they then decide that they want more features we can recommend that they > install cmake & rebuild. Hazen, on second thought you are probably correct and removing this ABS convenience is premature. I guess we should continue to provide everything supplied previously by our pre-built ABS until considerably further down the road when its lack of maintenance catches up with us. That means we have to carry a lot of pre-built autotools cruft in the tarball that the user who still wants to use our ABS could generate for themselves, but I am willing to go along with that extra ABS cruft for a while in the interest of compatibility. So I think our Mac OS X priorities now should be to get our CBS system up to the same level as our ABS on Mac OS X (if that is required depending on what you and Koen say about current comparisons between our ABS and CBS). It also "would be nice" to get the psttf device driver to work. On Windows platforms the goal is to eventually have the same PLplot features as the Linux platform. I think we are already slightly ahead of the old sys/win32/msdev build system, but I would like to hear from both Werner and Arjen what PLplot feature they each want to get working next on windows with our CBS. On Linux, we are essentially feature complete, but we need to make some changes to our tarball generation script, our CMake build system, and our cpack invocation to generate a release tarball with our CBS that includes everything that was present in previous release tarballs made with our ABS as well as everything required by our CBS. In this way, our CBS can stand completely on its own (i.e., generate a complete release tarball on its own). All of these changes should be entirely straightforward. I plan to work on this when we are closer to release. Additionally, one of our developers may want to volunteer to modify every Makefile.am to distribute the CMakeLists.txt files, but I do not plan to do that myself since this falls under the category of maintenance of our ABS-generated tarball, and I don't think that is necessary any more. Instead I prefer (see above) to work on our CBS-generated tarball. 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); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
