On 2007-07-03 07:11-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> Added two new files to the bindings directory, plplot_auxiliary.adb and >> plplot_auxiliary.ads. This was necessary in order to make the PLplot_Thin >> bindings disappear to the user. These files contain a few basic declarations >> used by all of the bindings (which were formerly exported by PLplot_Thin) and >> some utility procedures used by several of the examples. > > Hi Jerry: > > I committed your Ada patch.
After committing your patch I tried one further local change; removing all references to PLplot_Auxiliary from the examples because both the thick and traditional examples refer to Ada interfaces which in turn refer to PLplot_Auxiliary. However, that lead to the following type of error for both thick and traditional examples for both example 1 and example 12 (example 10 is so simplistic it doesn't run into the problem): xthick01a.dir/xthick01a.o xthick01a.adb:39:14: "Real_Vector" is not visible (more references follow) xthick01a.adb:39:14: non-visible declaration at plplot_auxiliary.ads:26 xthick01a.adb:39:26: incorrect constraint for this kind of type xthick01a.adb:43:11: "String_80" is not visible xthick01a.adb:43:11: non-visible declaration at plplot_auxiliary.ads:68 I presume with the appropriate namespace commands in plplot_traditional.ad[bs] and plplot.ad[bs] all the PLplot_Auxiliary definitions (e.g., String_80, etc.) could be made visible to the examples without having to explicitly mention PLplot_Auxiliary in the examples. In sum, there should be no fundamental need to mention PLplot_Auxiliary in the examples but this appears to be currently required because of namespace issues. Getting such namespace concerns properly dealt with is always a bit of a struggle in any given language, but I hope you are able to figure this out for Ada with help from your Ada contacts/references. 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 libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
