On 2009-06-30 23:29-0500 Geoffrey Furnish wrote:
> Alan W. Irwin writes:

> > [...]I would like to take
> > this opportunity to claim back the x??.py namespace with the modern debugged
> > examples if you can figure out a way to use those examples from pytkdemo so
> > we can ditch the old ones.

> Yes, I share this goal.  I'll be working on that in the coming days, along
> with some other PLplot+Python improvement plans I have.

Great!

> > Other cleanups:
> >
> > * Can we now delete the directory bindings/python/1.4b3 ?
>
> Yes.

DONE (revision 10106).
>
> > * Can I now edit README.pythonbuild to get rid of the explanation of the old
> >    method you used to access plframe from python?  That old method
> >    required a rebuild of a patched version of Python.  That gives a bad
> >    impression of your work since I suspect most modern users would run
> >    away screaming with horror from the idea of rebuilding Python.  :-)
>
> The short answer is: "yes".

DONE (revision 10107).

> The long anser is: "I'll have to probably revisit the whole topic and explain
> things again."

In my rewrite of README.pythonbuild, I now refer specifically to your recent
work. That may already be enough since short explanations that just stick to
the overview may be preferable. However, feel free to supplement that further
if you like.

Alan
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for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
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