As some of you may recall, yplot (yplot.sf.net) is an extension of the Yorick language that makes it possible to use PLplot from Yorick. yplot is maintained essentially be me, although Conrad Steenberg, its originator still has a bit of input. Some time ago we decided to only do minimal maintenance of yplot (because we thought Yorick was in that maintenance mode as well), and yplot just continued to work fine through all the various PLplot releases. However, it now appears that Yorick development continues pretty strongly, and I have just discovered the new Yorick-2 completely breaks the build of yplot.
Accordingly, I am currently working on the yplot build (with a new yplot build system that takes advantage of CMake), but I have run into a Debian yorick packaging bug that is an absolute showstopper for generating a yplot executable (the desired end result which is a version of Yorick with PLplot extensions). (This problem is caused bysome binary incompatibility or binutils bug which I cannot figure out or workaround.) Until my bug report is answered, I must fall back to using the alternative dynamic loading mechanism of Yorick-2 plug-ins which requires a one-line change in each of the *.i yorick include files I use for my research plotting. Once that change is made, everything seems to work OK again, but I don't want to impose that change on the remaining yplot users, and I am pretty far from a new release of yplot in any case. Nevertheless, if someone still wants to plot with yplot but cannot do so because they have Yorick-2 installed, then please get in touch with me privately, and I can instruct you how to build and use the Yorick-2 compatible yplot that I have cobbled together at the moment. 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); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
