Hi David: I changed the subject line for obvious reasons.
On 2010-02-26 14:09-0800 David MacMahon wrote: > As you all know by now, I'm working on Ruby bindings to PLplot. I am > (still) almost ready for a first release. There's always "a few more > things"! :-) You may have done this already, but I highly recommend that you implement the standard set of 31 examples in ruby. The test_diff_psc target (which is a subset of the test_noninteractive target) has been implemented to compare Postscript results from all our official bindings with Postscript results from the standard C examples. This has proved to be a powerful tool to diagnose even subtle bugs in the bindings, but complete coverage of the API does require implementing the complete standard set of examples in each set of bindings. The above suggestion pertains regardless of whether you are going to donate your ruby bindings to PLplot or not. However, if you do intend such a donation (under the LGPL), then you don't have to wait for perfection. For example, a donation would be fine if you just had at least the first standard example working since that would give me an opportunity to do the required initial build system changes to accomodate your initial list of implemented standard examples (if you haven't already done those build system changes in your initial donation). After all, we can disable the ruby bindings by default until they build and test without issues, and thus they won't interfere with normal use of PLplot. Furthermore, there will be plenty of opportunity for you to send patches in later to implement required bindings changes and add more standard example implementations. In fact, I would positively encourage such maintenance. :-) 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
