Alan W. Irwin wrote: > I think doing your own specific Makefile based build system for PLplot > would > work, but I also think it would take a rather large effort on your > part with > no beneficial networking effects at all (nobody else would use your > approach > so you could gain little help from anybody else or lend help to anybody > else). Yes definitely undesirable. However this might the fastest way to confirm that the end goal is even possible. Then I can go back to possibly patching the mainline build system. > Furthermore, developing your CMake skills is worth doing in its own > right since an increasing number of projects (KDE is probably the > biggest of > these) use it. Therefore, I encourage you to stick with CMake a bit > longer > even though you are unfamiliar with it at the moment. Noted. I'm currently on neck deep into the world of scons, and I do have a multitasking threshold before my head explodes. :) > ...
> Specifically, build just the plplot C library (with libqhull and freetype > dropped to eliminate those dependencies and with no dynamic drivers to > eliminate the dependence on dynamic loading libraries) What features go away by dropping qhull? -- www.thomasstover.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
