On 2015-02-06 08:36-0500 Jim Dishaw wrote: > I was able to get nearly identical outputs using psc with a replot of the plot buffer. The only differences were the time stamp in the header and an additional pen color command that doesn't affect anything.
Hi Jim: That sounds like an extremely encouraging result. Did you test that for all of our standard examples or just a few of them? I also suggest you do the equivalent test with -dev svg since that device has essentially full PLplot capability while -dev psc is missing a lot and therefore does not provide as stringent a test. > I'm trying to figure out how to eliminate the extra pen color command, but I'm not sure if I will be able. Eliminating this extra pen color noise from the diff is really important since it allows you to use cmp (with the first few bytes ignored to remove the time stamp from the comparison of PostScript results) as a diagnostic tool. Therefore, I hope you find the solution for this issue since that will allow us to check the plmeta capability on all standard examples as part of the test_diff_psc target (and the test_diff_svg target once we get to implementing that post release). Of course, as discussed before, a specific test target for all plbuf capabilities would be useful as well since such a test makes it possible to apply your series of patches for plbuf and plmeta changes to git master independently of other changes (such as Phil's wxwidgets work). Anyhow, I do hope to see such a patch series (including at least one plbuf test) from you in time (i.e., before the soft freeze date two weeks from now on February 21st) so that we can incorporate it into this forthcoming release. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
