On 2007-03-19 23:39-0400 Miguel de Val Borro wrote: > Hi, > > I have tried to build the pstex driver in plplot 5.7.2 using the CBS > adding the corresponding lines to config.h.make and > cmake/modules/drivers-init.cmake but it doesn't compile. Will the pstex > driver be supported in future releases?
Hi Miguel: We removed all the autotools build system infrastructure of the pstex device with the following commit message as of 2006-05-07: "Permanently disable the autotools build of pstex. Other PostScript devices (either ps or psttf) appear to give better solutions so there doesn't seem to be much purpose in maintaining this currently broken device." Since then our autotools build system has been deprecated and replaced with our new CMake build system. If our current ps or psttf devices don't satisfy your particular needs, then it should be straightforward for you to reinstate pstex under our CMake build system following the simple steps given in drivers/README.drivers. I don't quite recall what the brokeness is that was mentioned above, but I believe it was just a maintenance issue and nothing too serious. The main strikes against this device were its limited capabilities (compared to ps and psttf) and its long track record of nobody being interested enough to maintain or document it. However, if you are interested enough to get it working again, then I would be willing to commit those changes to our CVS version of PLplot. 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
