Hi, Steve, On Jan 2, 2010, at 13:48 , Schwartz, Steven J wrote:
> I suspect it would be relatively easy to write > the translation library you seek. Thanks for the encouragement! > However I suspect once you start down this road you'll start to see > things that plplot does better and things that pgplot can't do that > you'll want to take advantage of. I share your suspicion, but nature of the software's user base leads me to think that a wholesale changeover to PLplot might be seen as too radical. My thoughts are that an emulation library would be the thin end of the wedge. As users gain familiarity and comfort with PLplot (via the emulation library) and see things that it can do that PGPLOT can't do (at all or as well), I suspect the collective urge to make the wholesale changeover will become irresistible. > Additionally you'll find several > people on this list who are very responsive to queries. Indeed! I've already found two who have proved not only responsive but also very thoughtful and informative. > For me that re-write was easy, but that's because I had project > moneynto pay a small and very talented pair of staff members to do it! :-) > The first step would > obviously be to take, for example, the cpgplot header file and map > pgplot->plplot functions. That may convince you one way or the other > about the relative pain of writing such a library vs editing your > source to call the plplot routines natively. This is what I plan to do. I'll keep the list informed of my progress. Thanks again, Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
