On 2006-11-26 22:33-0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > PLplot 5.7.1 is now available at Sourceforge. This is the first > official (development) version of PLplot using the new cmake build > system. While it can still be built the "old" way (i.e. using > configure) we recommend getting the latest version of cmake (2.4.4) > and using that instead. We hope that Windows user in particular will > have a much easier time installing PLplot. Other changes include (1) > Modifying PLplot core to buffer plot commands in memory rather than > via a unix pipe/temporary file for increased speed (2) Numerous > improvements to the wxWidgets driver and (3) The addition of a new > driver that creates scalable vector graphics files (SVG). >
Note, complete instructions for the new CMake Build System (CBS) for PLplot are given at http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/. This new build system is much easier for PLplot developers to understand, maintain, and extend. For both PLplot users and developers our new build system gives more complete windows builds than our previous (in sys/win32/msdev) home-grown windows build system, gives excellent results on Linux and Mac OS X, and gives faster builds than our previous autotools build system (./configure ....). Since nobody wants to maintain the autotools build system any more it is now officially deprecated. We will probably (see Arjen's previous post about that) deprecate the home-grown windows build system as well. Therefore, we urge all PLplot users to start using our new CBS to build PLplot. Your platform coverage is much more varied than what the developers have access to so your feedback will be appreciated. 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 Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
