On 2006-12-20 20:19-0700 Jerry wrote: > Hi Alan, > > Thanks for the info. I'll work up a few examples and some command- > line build stuff. My Ada compiler is gcc's GNAT so the commands will > be specific to that. I'll post some more stuff to my web site when > it's ready. > > My only question is, where is the f95 code? I don't see it on the > PLplot Examples site or in the bindings in the distribution. I'm > still using 5.5.3. Is f95 included with later versions? Am I making a > big mistake in not using later versions?
I think it would be a good idea to use our latest development release (5.7.1) since that is probably our highest quality and certainly most complete version (which, for example, does include the f95 interface and examples.) Version 5.7.1 features our new CMake-based build system which we would be using to integrate the build of your Ada interface and the Ada standard examples. Use the directions at (http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/) to build PLplot from the 5.7.1 source tarball we have made available (at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2915). The reason why I think 5.7.1 is excellent quality (despite being a development release) is that our developers have tested it on Linux, Mac OS X, and a variety of windows platforms with no serious issues discovered. Furthermore, since the release we have had 500 downloads (still consistently averaging 20 per day), and so far there has only been one complaint about it which was the valid but non-code issue (since fixed) that we had not cut and pasted the most up-to-date build directions from our Wiki to the INSTALL file. So 5.7.1 appears to be solid. 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
