Andrew/Alan, On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 10:02 +0000, Andrew Ross wrote: > One other thing it would be nice to finalise before a release is what > we > are going to do with the date / time handling. I know there was a lot > of > discussion about this but we never came to a firm conclusion. If it > doesn't make it into the next development release then fair enough, > but > we really should finalise the API before the next stable release.
This one is waiting, I believe, routines that we promised to deliver to handle time. It is still my intention to deliver these, but we have been pushing hard to get a new release out of our own QSAS software and I can't see getting something to you within a week or two that could then be properly tested and integrated. Likewise we have promised a native Qt driver (which we have fully functional within our own software but haven't extracted and bundled yet. Again this won't happen on a timescale of weeks due to our other commitments. Re date/time handling: for the present we are using the patch I sent some time ago to you that implements a robust mktimeutc avoiding the idosyncracies of C's insistance on providing a mktime routine tied to local time. It would be possible for you to include that patch in your release, although you will need to modify the relevant examples and perhaps documentation to reflect the appropriate usage. The patch itself is pretty simple. I'm sorry that after a flurry of activity we haven't completed the above, but it's down to priorities and resource management. On the positive side, we will soon release a major piece of software that utilises plplot and demonstrates its power. I'll send you a link to the beta versions soon in case you want to have a look... Yours Steve -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ Professor Steven J Schwartz Phone: +44-(0)20-7594-7660 Space and Atmospheric Physics Fax: +44-(0)20-7594-7772 The Blackett Laboratory E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Imperial College London Office: Huxley 6M70 London SW7 2AZ, U.K. Web: http://www.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~sjs +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
