Hi Arjen: This is a response to one of your older messages that I initially missed in the mail mess I was dealing with.
On 2013-11-14 07:17-0000 Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > > yes, I have seen the various commit messsages. Many thanks for this work! > > I will have a look at the color issues and the hack in tkdemos. > > Meanwhile, I have been looking at the Pltk issue - mainly to see how I can > reproduce it. > So far, I have not succeeded with this. I can try in three different ways: > - Using Cygwin > - Using one of the Linux machines I have access to (none running Debian) > - Using a virtual machine running Debian > The latter is perhaps the most direct way, but it is also the most demanding > one. I got Debian stable (a.k.a wheezy) covered and Andrew has Debian unstable and the similar Ubuntu covered. And from your subsequent posts you have Cygwin covered nicely (and running well but extremely slowly due to the (expected) performance issues of X on Cygwin.) However, you really need speed to do comprehensive interactive tests. So I suggest the second option (non-Debian Linux) is the one you should try to give you a speedy interactive platform that complements the Linux platforms that Andrew and I already have access to. I think you will be absolutely astounded at the speed of the Linux interactive results relative to Cygwin. Of course, that is an obvious result since X is designed specifically to be extremely fast on Linux, but such speed gains are hard to appreciate until you have actually tried running "make test_interactive" on Linux. >From your prior experience with Cygwin bash and MinGW/MSYS bash.exe, command-line Linux should not be a large issue for you. But in any case I would be happy to answer (off list) any remaining questions you might have about the practicalities of running Linux from the command line within some terminal application such as xterm that you can run from any Linux desktop environment. By the way, I just figured out I now have almost 18 years of Linux command-line experience and 8 years of Unix command-line experience before that. So I am over-qualified to give you advice, but I would be happy to do it anyway.... :-) 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DreamFactory - Open Source REST & JSON Services for HTML5 & Native Apps OAuth, Users, Roles, SQL, NoSQL, BLOB Storage and External API Access Free app hosting. Or install the open source package on any LAMP server. Sign up and see examples for AngularJS, jQuery, Sencha Touch and Native! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63469471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
