Re: [Plplot-devel] Need advice on Mac OS X compatibility version for libraries

2008-04-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-04-03 10:23+0200 Rafael Laboissiere wrote: * Alan W. Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-04-02 16:30]: Assuming this really is a serious issue on Mac OS X, the obvious solution is to deal with it by bumping the major version number of the above libraries (and libLASi) from 0 to 1. I would

Re: [Plplot-devel] Need advice on Mac OS X compatibility version for libraries

2008-04-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On behalf of Rafael who is not subscribed to this list. 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

[Plplot-devel] plcont documentation update

2008-04-03 Thread Hezekiah M. Carty
I ran in to a problem with plcont while translating example 16 to OCaml. While writing the OCaml PLplot bindings I mistakenly assumed that the plcont function would accept NULL for its pltr and pltr_data arguments and fall back on a default transform of some sort. However, setting pltr to NULL

Re: [Plplot-devel] Need advice on Mac OS X compatibility version for libraries

2008-04-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-04-03 20:20+0200 Rafael Laboissiere wrote: * Alan W. Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-04-03 10:51]: However, to help the PLplot upstream developers make the decision, please answer my question about how much practical Debian packaging work is required by you to do a major version bump

Re: [Plplot-devel] Need advice on Mac OS X compatibility version for libraries

2008-04-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
I just learned from some CMake list traffic that the CMake developers are struggling with this Mac OS X issue at the moment. It appears they may end up eventually copying the libtools cross-platform scheme for dealing with library versioning, see the on-going discussion at