On 2008-12-15 20:12-0000 Andrew Ross wrote: > Alan, > > Sounds like an excellent idea. I was thinking of something similar > myself. If you are happy to put something together I'll help with the > work of propagating it out to the other languages.
Thanks for that encouragement. I made an initial version of C example 31 (revision 9126) which for now only tests plgvpw. It ctests fine. I also checked that the error message was expressed properly when there was a mismatch of one of the variables. Could you have a look and fill in a few more set/get pairs to make sure the example will scale well to lots of set/get pairs? I ask this because I know your C skills are better than mine. I will take responsibility for any set/get pairs that you don't do. I could not avoid using plinit (in order to use plwind as the "setter" for plgvpw). However, instead of viewing that as a negative, I decided to view that as a positive feature since it tests the capability of our various device drivers to make a valid plot file with minimal content. For example, I just now checked that x31c01.svg validates properly at validator.w3.org. Of course that generated file is also required to make the compare ctest work properly for, e.g., finding unimplemented versions of example 31. Sure enough, the compare ctest output now has lots of 31's splashed around, but fixing that by propagating 31 to the other languages will obviously have to wait until we fill out all the set/get pairs in the C example. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
