Re: [Plplot-devel] [Perldl] Troubling PDL behavior with constants

2008-12-12 Thread Douglas Hunt
Chris: On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Chris Marshall wrote: > Doug Hunt wrote: >> >> So, I would like to propose one of two remedies (attached). >> >> The first (pdlcore.c.PL.diff) would be to get rid of >> pdl_whichdatatype_double and just assume that scalars convert to doubles, >> not floats. This w

Re: [Plplot-devel] [Perldl] Troubling PDL behavior with constants

2008-12-12 Thread Douglas Hunt
Hi Rob: I'm sure that changing to GenericTypes = ['D', 'F'] fixes the problem on my 32 bit Linux machine. If you saw different behavior, perhaps it was on a Windows box? --Doug On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Sisyphus wrote: > > - Original Message - From: "Doug Hunt" > . > . >> Another approac

[Plplot-devel] Troubling PDL behavior with constants

2008-12-12 Thread Doug Hunt
Hi all: When testing the new PDL interface to plplot, we came across this odd PDL behavior: use PDL; print "acos(-1.) = ", acos(-1.), "\n"; print "acos(-1 ) = ", acos(-1 ), "\n"; The acos(-1.) version incorrectly gives a single precision result, whereas the acos(1) version gives the expected

Re: [Plplot-devel] [Perldl] My initial pre-release testing

2008-12-12 Thread Doug Hunt
You're welcome! Sorry it took me so long to get to this! --Doug dh...@ucar.edu Software Engineer IV UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611 On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Andrew Ross wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 02:49:59PM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: >> The ctest result for Perl/PDL is now perfect. >> >> pe

Re: [Plplot-devel] [Perldl] My initial pre-release testing

2008-12-12 Thread Andrew Ross
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 02:49:59PM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: > The ctest result for Perl/PDL is now perfect. > > perl >Missing examples : >Differing examples : > > Good work, Doug! > > I will finish off the build system tweaks, and also put in a paragraph > in README.release about your

Re: [Plplot-devel] Disabling Tcl/Tk because of the segfaults?

2008-12-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-12-12 19:39+0100 G Furnish wrote: > [...]I'm not able to develop actively right now. So if you have to disable > something by default, in order to make the default configuration include > only things that are in good shape, that seems fine to me. Regrettable, > but correct from a release

Re: [Plplot-devel] Disabling Tcl/Tk because of the segfaults?

2008-12-12 Thread Arjen Markus
> > Thanks, Arjen, for that suggestion. I was debating whether to propose > enabling Tcl by default regardless (since it certainly has no segfault > problems as revealed by ctest), and now you have confirmed that idea. So > I > will follow your above suggestion in detail (unless some other Tcl/Tk