On 22.04.2009, at 09:01, Andrew Ross wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:09:45PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: >> On 2009-04-21 23:24-0500 Maurice LeBrun wrote: >> >>> These are excellent points. I too work for a ginormous >>> corporation for which >>> RHEL4 represents state-of-the-art tech. And have similar doubts >>> that will >>> change for a couple years at least. So the legacy png driver will >>> remain very >>> useful to me & my team for some time to come. >> >> Now that my attention has been drawn to the issue, Geoffrey's >> "enterprise >> edition" point and your support of it are well taken. Therefore, I >> think >> our best course is to deprecate the gd device driver in the release >> announcement for the reasons given and also turn it off by default. >> That >> still gives the user who has no access to modern GTK/pango/cairo or >> qt as in >> said RHEL4 environment but who still wants to build modern PLplot, >> the >> option to turn the png, jpeg, or even gif devices knowing full well >> their >> limitations. >> >> Is there any justification for similarly deprecating the gcw device >> driver >> (which pretty much has similar dependencies to the cairo device >> driver) or >> should I go ahead with permanently disabling it? > > I'm with Geoffrey and Maurice on the gd driver. I still use it on > several > (old and new) systems. Yes, I could switch to cairo / qt on some of > those > systems, but not all and there is an inertia to stick with the > driver you > know. Plus the gd has quite small dependencies compared to the other > two. > For small / embedded systems this could be a big advantage. Set the > option > to off by default if you like, but don't disable it completely. At > least > if it is still configurable and in the test suite we'll know if we > accidentally break things.
Same here. On Windows it's much easier to install the gd library then the cairo/pango library. I still us the gd driver and would like to do so in the future. So as Alan already wrote, keep it in the CBS but do not enable it by default. I have no opinion on the gcw driver. Werner -- Dr. Werner Smekal Institut fuer Allgemeine Physik Technische Universitaet Wien Wiedner Hauptstr 8-10 A-1040 Wien Austria email: sme...@iap.tuwien.ac.at web: http://www.iap.tuwien.ac.at/~smekal phone: +43-(0)1-58801-13463 (office), +43-(0)1-58801-13469 (laboratory) fax: +43-(0)1-58801-13499 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
