[Plplot-devel] Revised plot metafiles and changes to plbuf

2015-03-01 Thread Jim Dishaw
Attached is a patch for testing, I don't recommend pushing it to master yet. It comes very close to rendering a metafile identically (modulo rounding differences). The main problem is that plot symbols are missing. I should be able to fix that on Monday. I also disabled the alternative

Re: [Plplot-devel] Metafile questions

2015-03-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Jim: On 2015-03-01 21:33-0500 Jim Dishaw wrote: Do we want to store unicode or non-unicode data in the metafiles? My guess is that unicode strings should be stored. No. Do nothing special in plmeta mode except to store the raw null-terminated char array whenever such arguments appear

[Plplot-devel] Release status

2015-03-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
To get the ball rolling on the promised Monday discussion of the current release status, and what that implies for the release date, here is what I have been up to this weekend. I decided to comprehensively test PLplot on Linux using the epa_build procedure (documented in cmake/epa_build/README)