That would be my supposition. I looked at the changes required to switch from short to PLINTERNAL and I have a few questions:
1) Do we want to keep the PLINTERNAL type private to plplot? 2) Where do we want to define the type (the location depends on the answer to #1)? On Jan 13, 2015, at 10:37 PM, "Alan W. Irwin" <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote: > On 2015-01-13 22:00-0500 Jim Dishaw wrote: > >> 5) Implement command line switches for plot buffer output (-mfo) and input >> (-mfi) > >> 8) Fix plrender > > @Jim: Thanks for that summary which leads me to a question for both you > and Phil: > > Just to verify I understand the broad outline of the new design and > what the -mfi option does, I assume if you had (say) a Python script > consisting of a call to plparseopts, plinit, and plend with no other > content, and you invoked that script as > > python myscript.py -mfi <plmetafile name> <other PLplot options> > > would that be equivalent to the new > > plrender <plmetafile name> <other PLplot options> > > ? > > If so, the C code for the new plrender is going to be quite small (but still > worth it I believe just to avoid forcing the user to write a 3-line > script if they ever want to take advantage of the -mfi option in this > simplistic (replay plot with other device) way. > > 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 > __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
