Yesterday (Wednesday) marked a lot of minor changes to the Ada interfaces and examples. All the details are in the CVS commit messages which I urge those who have an interest in Ada to review.
Jerry started the ball rolling with a patch Wednesday morning which made a lot of corrections. After I committed his patch, I followed up with changes to x12a to make it consistent with the other thin interface examples. Comparison with the equivalent C result showed a bug in the thin version of plfill which I fixed by brute force. (Jerry should review that fix since I don't really know what I am doing with Ada. :-) ) I then replaced x01a with a version that used the thin interface and moved the old version to xt01a (where the "t" means the thick interface is used by the example). ctest on xt01a, x01a, x10a, and x12a reveal no differences with the corresponding C results so all seems to be well so far. However, before adding any more thick or thin examples, I have suggested to Jerry off-list some changes I hope he makes to the API, but we will see what he decides about those issues. If he makes a quick decision, we might get in one more round of changes before the release this weekend. Another continuing issue is the CMake build system infrastructure for Ada. I noticed some weird results for it today. The source code dependencies were not working correctly (so you had to start with an empty build tree each time to get changes compiled for plplot*.ad?) Also, if you did "make clean" the linking command subsequently disappeared (???) unless you started all over with an empty build tree. So the current advice is always start with an empty build tree for libplplotada source code changes. Strangely enough this was not necessary for example source code changes where the dependencies were working properly. I don't have time to tackle these issues at the moment. I think the Ada interface and example build system is adequate for now (if you don't expect too much from it and use the workaround --- start with empty build tree --- that I mentioned), and I plan to sort out these issues substantially after the current release. 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
