I am happy to report I just landed a big topic (complete update of our Fortran binding and Fortran examples that Arjen and I have been working on for some time) on master.
If you update your local master branches to the latest version (commit id 498019cf) you will see that commit is the last of 70 (!) commits that Arjen and I collaborated on (using "git format-patch"/"git am") using a private topic branch. This commit finalized the Fortran PLplot API and also passed all my comprehensive tests so it was time to land this topic. I did that following the method documented in README.developers. However, that method is a little more scary when you are dealing with 70 commits rather than just one or two maintenance commits. But everything worked very well as you can see. To see our motivation for working so hard on this topic, please consult the notes about this Fortran binding rewrite in README.release. The net result I think is Fortran is for the very first time one of our most powerful language bindings, and that fits in quite well with our advertising PLplot as a scientific plotting library because modern Fortran (2003 or later) is in something of a renaissance with scientists now that it has gained so many high-power capabilities compared to Fortran 77. I am in a celebratory mood tonight because of this joint achievement with Arjen, and I am sure he is feeling the same 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
