[Plplot-devel] First pass at a public API for libqsastime completed

2009-02-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
As of revision 9546, I have completed the first pass at a new, more powerful public API for libqsastime. This (new) public API is documented in README.qsastime_API and qsastime.h and largely consists of powerful wrappers for the internal helper functions which are well-tested by qsastime_test and

Re: [Plplot-devel] time

2009-02-18 Thread Arjen Markus
Hello Terrence, I do not think it is possible to set an environment variable to an empty string on Windows. This amounts to undefining it. I have found the same problem with setenv() and unsetenv() on my venerable platform (Windows XP, 32 bits, with MSVC 6.0). I will create a workaround using

[Plplot-devel] [Patch] msvc installation problem

2009-02-18 Thread Mark de Wever
Hi, When I installed plplot (svn trunk) with msvc 2008 I couldn't use plplot due to a missing header for msvc. The attached patch fixes the problem. Regards, Mark de Wever msvc_cmake.patch Description: Binary data --

Re: [Plplot-devel] Google Summer of Code

2009-02-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-02-17 22:24-0500 Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Werner Smekal sme...@iap.tuwien.ac.at wrote: should we apply for Google summer of Code? http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ what we need are good ideas, mentors and students who are willing to write code.

Re: [Plplot-devel] [Patch] msvc installation problem

2009-02-18 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Mark, thanks for the patch. Commited to svn. Best Regards, Werner Smekal On 18.02.2009, at 09:49, Mark de Wever wrote: Hi, When I installed plplot (svn trunk) with msvc 2008 I couldn't use plplot due to a missing header for msvc. The attached patch fixes the problem. Regards,

Re: [Plplot-devel] Google Summer of Code

2009-02-18 Thread Andrew Ross
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 01:21:33AM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: On 2009-02-17 22:24-0500 Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Werner Smekal sme...@iap.tuwien.ac.at wrote: should we apply for Google summer of Code? http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ what we need are

Re: [Plplot-devel] [Patch] msvc installation problem

2009-02-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-02-18 18:36+0100 Werner Smekal wrote: Hi Alan, For those (like me) who do not understand Windows that well, what is the purpose of dirent_msvc.h? I assume it is automatically generated, but does that automatic generation only occur in the build-tree include directory or do we have

Re: [Plplot-devel] [Patch] msvc installation problem

2009-02-18 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Alan, The purpose is to provide the dirent functionality which is provided by glibc (or similar) so available for gcc (and also mingw) for Visual C++, which doesn't have this. plcore.c needs that to browse through a directory to search for available dynamic drivers which are then

Re: [Plplot-devel] time

2009-02-18 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Alan, I will take care of it tonight. The test I have in mind is: - Check if a program can be built using both setenv() and unsetenv() - If not, then fall back on putenv() as in the patch I assume that these functions come in pairs, so that it won't be necessary to test them separately.