Hi Stephen: Thanks for your further comments. I have no knowledge of CAD other than what I can quickly read in wikipedia. Nevertheless, it sounds to me like you have completely answered my question on interoperability.
I am not as satisfied with your response to my concerns about your new device's ability to deal with unicode text (e.g., examples 23 and 24 rather than 6 or 7) and dealing with fills and gradients (example 25). (Follow links at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/examples.php to see what is possible with those examples for our modern devices.) I emphasize my concerns are not serious feature requests because I don't have CAD needs myself, but they are issues I think you should at least be aware of if you or some other CAD user develops a future need for fills, gradients, or unicode text processing. I think I do understand your expressed feeling that your new device is good enough for your current needs so you want to be done with developing it now. I have lots of software of my own that I have developed over the years which is in that category. :-) That said, it is a completely different ball game if you want your software to be used by others. For that category of software, development never stops (for example, PLplot is approaching 25 years in age, and we are still developing it!) So maintenance and willingness to respond to feature requests is always an on-going concern for public software. To illustrate that point, we have a lot of PLplot devices where we have gone through (or are going through) the painful decision to retire them because there is nobody external or internal to the project who is interested in maintaining them any further. So if you decide you do want to donate your device to PLplot, my opinion is we would probably need reassurance from you before accepting it that you are interested in the long haul in maintaining it and responding to real feature requests that will be inevitable if the CAD community starts using it. Of course, that is just my opinion and others here may have different ideas. 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); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
