Re: [Plplot-devel] time

2008-09-02 Thread Andrew Ross
Steve, Alan, I entirely agree that the only sane, cross-platform and cross-language way of dealing with the timegm (and possible gmtime) problem is to add our own implementation. This is relatively straightfoward and I can see no reason not to. The bigger question is whether we carry on using

Re: [Plplot-devel] Time calculation in Ada example 29

2008-09-02 Thread Andrew Ross
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 02:03:25AM -0700, Jerry wrote: On Sep 1, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2008-09-01 14:58-0700 Jerry wrote: Andrew, Does the Ada example, with xmin hardcoded to 1_133_395_200.0, generate the same Postscript as the C example? The current Ada

Re: [Plplot-devel] time

2008-09-02 Thread Steve Schwartz
Hello Alan, On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 12:18 -0700, Alan W. Irwin wrote: I think we should deal properly with leap seconds because of the problem you mentioned above and also the problem that our fundamental time variable would then have a strange relationship with externally defined time

Re: [Plplot-devel] Looking into problem with Ada example 19

2008-09-02 Thread orion
Attached is a zip file that more closely emulates the PLPlot situation, with plmap written in C but with the callback, mapform19, written in Ada. Could a few of you test it to see if it runs or crashes on your machines? Either way, I'd like to report back to the geniuses at comp.lang.ada.

[Plplot-devel] What is needed to build docs?

2008-09-02 Thread orion
-- WARNING: DSSSL Style Sheet DTD not found -- WARNING: DocBook HTML Stylesheet not found -- WARNING: DocBook Print Stylesheet not found -- WARNING: DocBook DTD not found -- WARNING: Not building print documentation - dtd files / style sheets are missing -- WARNING: Not building html documentation

Re: [Plplot-devel] Looking into problem with Ada example 19

2008-09-02 Thread Jerry
On Sep 2, 2008, at 7:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Attached is a zip file that more closely emulates the PLPlot situation, with plmap written in C but with the callback, mapform19, written in Ada. Could a few of you test it to see if it runs or crashes on your machines? Either way, I'd

Re: [Plplot-devel] What is needed to build docs?

2008-09-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-09-02 21:28-0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- WARNING: DSSSL Style Sheet DTD not found -- WARNING: DocBook HTML Stylesheet not found -- WARNING: DocBook Print Stylesheet not found -- WARNING: DocBook DTD not found -- WARNING: Not building print documentation - dtd files / style sheets

[Plplot-devel] ocaml install dir

2008-09-02 Thread orion
Looks like OCAML_INSTALL_DIR should be set to the output of ocaml -where. This will allow for the differences in Debian and Fedora (and other) install locations. Debian guidelines: 1.3.2. OCaml Location The root of all installed OCaml libraries is the OCaml standard library directory,