On 2007-02-07 21:34-0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Some questions / issues with our current docbook manual: > > (1a) Chapter 23 (i.e. how to install). Should we keep this and update > it? Refer users to the INSTALL file instead? To the wiki? > (1b) Chapter 4, how to deploy. See questions for 1a. > > (2) We seem to be missing a chapter on Java. Any Java experts have > any interest in providing at least a quick overview? > > (3) The Python chapter is, well, terse & probably dated. Any Python > experts willing to bring this up to date, including (a) a brief > overview of the bindings and (b) a simple example? > > (4) The C language chapter claims to be old & in need of updating. > Any ideas about what specifically might be wrong? Do we no longer > recommend FLOAT, INT and PROTO? Do we no longer support non-standard > C compilers? Notes are needed about PLBOOL & PLUNICODE? > > (5) Chapter 10, The plstream C++ interface. This is stable now and > hasn't changed for a long time? Is there an example to reference that > demonstrates how to use it?
(6) and the chapter on fortran 95 is essentially copied (with many errors in detail as a result) from the fortran 77 chapter simply as a placeholder for now. With regard to your 1a and 1b questions, I think our docbook documentation should stand completely on its own as the definitive source of our documentation. So once our wiki settles down (and I think we have reached that point or are pretty close) I think we should copy a lot of that material to our docbook documentation. With regard to your further questions, note that for python, perl(?), java, fortran 95, and C++ we actually deploy an alternative interface where the redundant dimensions are dropped (for backwards compatibility the C++ interface also has an interface similar to the old C-like interface as well). Perhaps the best procedure here is to add a chapter closely following our existing API chapter, but with the details changed for all the dropped redundant dimensions. Then you could add short documentation for each of the above languages that simply refers to the alternative api chapter for the details. Unfortunately, I will not be able to work further on that alternative API documentation idea until my responsibility for the svn testing and conversion is done, but hopefully somebody else will have the time to move forward with that idea in the meanwhile. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
