Hi Walt: Thanks for all these good questions below. I am CCing the plplot-general mailing list because I hope my answers will not only help you but also others who are lurking on that list.
On 2014-05-14 12:57-0700 Walt Brainerd wrote: > I found revision 13119--a bunch of stuff. > > What do I do with all that? Probably the "bunch of stuff" is because you accessed everything in our huge repository which includes all prior releases, all our branch developments, and the trunk version. Instead, you should just access the trunk version alone. The easiest way to do that is go to sf.net/projects/plplot ==> code, and follow the directions there. Your equivalent of the "svn --checkout" command for the svn trunk version will create the source tree with a top-level directory named with whatever name you decided on. After that, create a build directory outside the source tree, change to that (initially empty) build directory, then execute the cmake command using the absolute location of the top-level directory of the source tree and with CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX set to an absolute location that is outside both the source tree and the build tree. Keeping those three trees completely separate from each other is the most convenient way to set up PLplot builds. Using that method, your source tree remains absolutely pristine with no non-source tree files put into it. And it is easy to remove your entire build tree after an install without interfering with the install tree or source tree. Furthermore, whenever one of us updates the svn trunk version, you can get access to that update by using the equivalent of the svn --update command in the top-level of the source tree with no revision specified. The result will tell you what revision number you updated to, and so long as that number is equal to or greater than the revision number of our commits that you are interested in, you should be fine (unless we screw up the svn trunk version, but that happens rarely because that is the one that gets daily use from the Plplot developers and that is the version of PLplot that eventually becomes our next release after much comprehensive testing using epa_build). > My compiles have all been with 5.10.0. The combination of a binary download of cairo + "MinGW Makefiles" is absolutely cutting edge stuff (Principally, because I was unmotivated to test that case before because it never worked for me. But now it does. :-) ) Because this is cutting edge, it is required that you use the svn trunk version of PLplot until our next release (probably something like 6 months from now because we plan to move to a git repository, and it will take a large effort on our part to adjust to that large change). > And do I have to worry about "epa_build", > whatever that is ??? No, it is not necessary for you to use or be concerned about epa_build at this time unless you want to do comprehensive testing. But if you are interested in comprehensive testing or are just plain curious at all about the PLplot epa_build sub-project, I have documented in cmake/epa_build/README the several reasons why I implemented it. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
