Re: [Plplot-devel] Standard Tcl/Tk examples and some issues

2010-06-07 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Arjen Markus writes: > Hello, > > I have been looking at the issues that arose with running the examples > in Tcl or Tk one after another and I have an almost working solution > now (based on examples/tk/standard_examples.in and > examples/tk/tkdemos.tcl). Here is the idea: > > tcldemos.t

Re: [Plplot-devel] Python and numeric support

2010-05-17 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Andrew Ross writes: > Is anyone still using Numeric support for python arrays with plplot? > Numeric has been deprecated for a number of years in favour of the still > actively supported and developed numpy. Currently plplot supports both, > but I can't see much long term need for this. It wo

Re: [Plplot-devel] Tcl example 19

2010-05-15 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Werner Smekal writes: > I think there is a misunderstanding. CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX is the prefix > used to install the program you're configuring, this doesn't set the > path, where cmake looks for libraries: > > pico:examples smekal$ cmake --help-variable CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX > cmake version

Re: [Plplot-devel] Tcl example 19

2010-05-12 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > To take this further could you please try building cmake-2.8.1 (see > directions at http://cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html) and use that > version instead for the above test if that is not what you are already > doing? That's the version I use for my testing wit

Re: [Plplot-devel] Tcl example 19

2010-05-12 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > Thanks for running that test. As far as I am concerned that demonstrates a > gross cmake bug. > > To anticipate the first question that will be asked when I report this > issue, what version of cmake are you running? If it is a system version, I > wonder if your Linux

Re: [Plplot-devel] Tcl example 19

2010-05-12 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > On 2010-05-12 18:55-0500 Geoffrey Furnish wrote: > > > Alan W. Irwin writes: > > > Just for completeness could you also show us the results of > > > > > > ls $HOME/devel/8.4/prefix/lib > > > > > > ? &

Re: [Plplot-devel] Tcl example 19

2010-05-12 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > Just for completeness could you also show us the results of > > ls $HOME/devel/8.4/prefix/lib > > ? % ls $HOME/devel/8.4/prefix/lib libtcl8.4.so libtk8.4.so tcl8.4tk8.4 libtclstub8.4.a libtkstub8.4.a tclConfig.sh tkConfig.sh > It is possible the

Re: [Plplot-devel] Tcl example 19

2010-05-12 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Werner Smekal writes: > I think it has something to do with these lines FindTCL.cmake > > FIND_LIBRARY(TCL_LIBRARY > NAMES > tcl > tcl${TK_LIBRARY_VERSION} tcl${TCL_TCLSH_VERSION} tcl${TK_WISH_VERSION} > tcl86 tcl8.6 > tcl85 tcl8.5 > tcl84 tcl8.4 > tcl83 tcl8.3 > tcl82 t

Re: [Plplot-devel] Tcl example 19

2010-05-12 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Werner Smekal writes: > Hi Geoffrey, > > On 5/12/10 10:30 PM, Geoffrey Furnish wrote: > > Alan W. Irwin writes: > >> On 2010-05-12 11:22-0500 Geoffrey Furnish wrote: > >>> BTW, taking a cue from the wiki, I added some options on the > >>&

Re: [Plplot-devel] Tcl example 19

2010-05-12 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > On 2010-05-12 11:22-0500 Geoffrey Furnish wrote: > > BTW, taking a cue from the wiki, I added some options on the cmake line > > like this: > > > > % cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/devel/8.4/prefix > -DCMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=

Re: [Plplot-devel] Current test_diff_psc results

2010-05-12 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > On 2010-05-11 12:29-0500 Geoffrey Furnish wrote: > > > Geoffrey Furnish writes: > > > Alan W. Irwin writes: > > > > C++ and OCaml are perfect, and here is the status of the remaining > > > > non-perfect bindings:

Re: [Plplot-devel] Tcl example 19

2010-05-12 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > Hi Geoffrey: > > Your recent revision (I am using revision 10991) to make a plstransform > wrapper to Tcl builds okay, but actual use of plstransform for example 19 > does not work for me. I get > > Unable to evaluate Tcl-side coordinate transform. > > repeated

Re: [Plplot-devel] Tcl example 19

2010-05-12 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > Hi Geoffrey: > > Your recent revision (I am using revision 10991) to make a plstransform > wrapper to Tcl builds okay, but actual use of plstransform for example 19 > does not work for me. I get > > Unable to evaluate Tcl-side coordinate transform. > > repeated

Re: [Plplot-devel] Current test_diff_psc results

2010-05-11 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > Since your question is of general interest to developers, I am posting my > reply to the list. > > > I'm working on Tcl #19. I'm close to getting it straightened out, hope to > > commit soon. > > > > Question: In my own comparisons between the C and Tcl examples, >

Re: [Plplot-devel] Current test_diff_psc results

2010-05-11 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Geoffrey Furnish writes: > Alan W. Irwin writes: > > C++ and OCaml are perfect, and here is the status of the remaining > > non-perfect bindings: > > > > tcl > >Missing examples: > >Differing postscript out

Re: [Plplot-devel] Current test_diff_psc results

2010-05-11 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > C++ and OCaml are perfect, and here is the status of the remaining > non-perfect bindings: > > tcl >Missing examples: >Differing postscript output : 19 21 28 >Missing stdout : >Differing stdout: 21 I believe I'

Re: [Plplot-devel] Propagation of C example changes to our other language examples is needed

2010-05-01 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > On 2010-05-01 21:26-0500 Geoffrey Furnish wrote: > > What is the simplest statement of the commumdrum? > > If you apply the following patch > [...] > > in accordance with Hez's arguments above, then plshade and plshades quit > wor

Re: [Plplot-devel] Propagation of C example changes to our other language examples is needed

2010-05-01 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > On 2010-05-01 14:43-0400 Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: > > > Alan, > > > > Thank you for looking in to this. My reason for making that change > > was that it doesn't make sense to me in a general context to require > > that both arguments are non-NULL - if the pltr funct

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot 6.0

2009-11-23 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > So I think "the road to 6.0" is going to be a long process that will need > lots of planning, implementation, and testing work, but that effort should > be worthwhile if we end up with just the ideal API for 6.0 with the > non-ideal component of our API completely remove

Re: [Plplot-devel] style

2009-07-07 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > I have changed to the "style" subject line for this since it touches on > three separate recent threads with varying subject lines involving style. > > On 2009-06-30 15:20-0500 Geoffrey Furnish wrote: > > > Oh, one more really last thi

Re: [Plplot-devel] python extension linking, was RE: python branch now "merged"

2009-07-01 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > On 2009-07-01 00:09-0500 Geoffrey Furnish wrote: > > HOWEVER: PLplot's Python binding needs numpy. And here comes the rub. > > It turns out that Numpy's installation will *not work* if the python was > > built --enable-shared. If you do

[Plplot-devel] python extension linking, was RE: python branch now "merged"

2009-06-30 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Geoffrey Furnish writes: > The other thing worth discussing is just to draw attention to the fact > that in the past I had trouble with how the python modules are being > linked. I haven't gotten as far as reinvestigating that, so I'll post > more on it later. But in

Re: [Plplot-devel] python branch now "merged"

2009-06-30 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > On 2009-06-30 15:20-0500 Geoffrey Furnish wrote: > > I've injected the work formerly done on the python branch, onto svn trunk > > tip. > > > > I've done a little messing around with cmake, so I would appreciate it > >

Re: [Plplot-devel] python branch now "merged"

2009-06-30 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Geoffrey Furnish writes: > I've injected the work formerly done on the python branch, onto svn trunk > tip. > [...] One more ultra final addendum to the prior note. Those who've been holding their breath for a *really* long time, will note that the method used in this pat

[Plplot-devel] python branch now "merged"

2009-06-30 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Hi all, I've injected the work formerly done on the python branch, onto svn trunk tip. I've done a little messing around with cmake, so I would appreciate it if people could look over bindings/python/CMakeLists.txt in particular. One concern I have is that someone might disable Tcl/Tk, but enab

[Plplot-devel] configure(cmake)/build problems on F11

2009-06-27 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
There seem to be some problems with autodetection. Using trunk tip (rev 10082), if I run cmake setting only a destination build prefix, but leaving it to find things in all the system places (in other words, my destination build prefix is empty in this case), I find: xiphi:t5/plplot/tmp | master

Re: [Plplot-devel] [PATCH] Qt driver: fix coding style

2009-06-25 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > On 2009-06-21 05:04+0300 Dmitri Gribenko wrote: > > > I understand that coding style is a very subjective matter, so I'm > > open for discussion. I just want the code to be readable and have > > consistent style. > > Hi Dmitri: > > Thanks for bringing up this to

Re: [Plplot-devel] plConfig.h and HAVE_* macros

2009-06-25 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
t; On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:23:45AM -0500, Geoffrey Furnish wrote: > > I can confirm that use of PLplot together with the Python C API, > > produces many many warnings, some of them traceable to the HAVE_* > > business. I plan to try to clean this up sometime soon. Andrew Ros

Re: [Plplot-devel] plConfig.h and HAVE_* macros

2009-06-18 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
I can confirm that use of PLplot together with the Python C API, produces many many warnings, some of them traceable to the HAVE_* business. I plan to try to clean this up sometime soon. Dmitri Gribenko writes: > Hello all, > > plplot.h includes plConfig.h which defines some HAVE_* macros. T

Re: [Plplot-devel] Trouble compiling current head on F11

2009-06-18 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > I think the explanation must be you are running into previously unknown > build issues because you are using the build system for situations > (platforms and library version sets) the rest of us don't have access > to. By definition that class of build-system bugs is har

Re: [Plplot-devel] Writing an application with plplot

2009-06-18 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Dmitri Gribenko writes: > I'm writing to the list to get some advice about implementation > details of the features. > > Some of the features I want to implement are easy with plplot > (multiple subpages, Bode plots). But I want to ask your advice about > implementing some other features, s

Re: [Plplot-devel] Trouble compiling current head on F11

2009-06-17 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Geoffrey Furnish writes: > I'm having trouble compiling plplot on Fedora 11. I am at rev 10054. > [...] > So, it seems that plplot, with cmake 2.6.4, is wrongly concluding that > even though the tcl executables are at ~/F11/icf/bin, and the headers at > ~/F11/

[Plplot-devel] Trouble compiling current head on F11

2009-06-17 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Hi guys, I'm having trouble compiling plplot on Fedora 11. I am at rev 10054. I have built a "prefix" with Tcl/Tk, and Python in it. I run cmake (Fedora 11 provides cmake version 2.6.4) and the subsequent build thusly: cat > run_cmake.sh <<-EOF env PATH=$PREFIX/bin:$PATH \ cmak

Re: [Plplot-devel] cmake troubles, user error?

2009-04-28 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Andrew Ross writes: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:40:14AM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > > On 2009-04-28 10:45+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > > > >> [...]I've been using HAVE_PTHREAD=ON for a long time with the xwin > >> driver with no problems. It has certainly been enabled in the debian > >> packages

Re: [Plplot-devel] cmake troubles, user error?

2009-04-27 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Andrew Ross writes: > Testing has shown that this is a result of a bug in gfortran versions <= > 4.1 when both the fortran exit command and the instrinsic exit subroutine > are used in the same program. I have committed a simple work-around in > example 20 which should fix compilation for yo

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status on the Tk segfault

2009-04-25 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > [...], but the other two error out as follows: > > softw...@raven> ./xtk02 -f tk02 > invalid command name "Pltkwin" > while executing > "Pltkwin .plw" > (file "tk02" line 48) > invoked from within > "source tk02" > > > softw...@raven> ./xtk04 -f

[Plplot-devel] Status on the Tk segfault

2009-04-24 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
So, thanks to all for the help today. This note is to summarize what I have learned about the fabled Tk segfault. When I finally managed to find a way to exhibit the problem under gdb, I found that the program was inside a pthread op. That was at a different computer than where I am now. As I r

Re: [Plplot-devel] cmake troubles, user error?

2009-04-24 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > When running into a component problem like this where you are not interested > in the component (and also for speed) just disable the componenent, e.g., > -DENABLE_f95=OFF I did, and kept going. > Thanks for that fortran 95 error report. > > However, I don't think w

Re: [Plplot-devel] cmake troubles, user error?

2009-04-24 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Andrew Ross writes: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:54:43PM -0500, Geoffrey Furnish wrote: > > Werner Smekal writes: > > > I usually debug in the build tree. Add the "-DBUILD_TEST=ON" to the > > > cmake options and all examples will be compiled in the bu

Re: [Plplot-devel] cmake troubles, user error?

2009-04-24 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Werner Smekal writes: > Geoffrey Furnish wrote: > > Werner Smekal writes: > > > make VERBOSE=1 > > > > I found a cmake var for this too. > > > true, but then you've always verbose output. Using VERBOSE=1 for the > make command only print

Re: [Plplot-devel] cmake troubles, user error?

2009-04-24 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Werner Smekal writes: > I usually debug in the build tree. Add the "-DBUILD_TEST=ON" to the > cmake options and all examples will be compiled in the built tree. Well, I must be missing something. When I add this, I don't find the tk examples in the build tree. There is an examples/tk directo

Re: [Plplot-devel] cmake troubles, user error?

2009-04-24 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Geoffrey Furnish writes: > I do have another question: How do I accomplish what we might call a "debug > build" ? > > I want all compilation units compiled with -g, and linked appropriately to > allow running under the debugger. Is there a simple way to pull that o

Re: [Plplot-devel] cmake troubles, user error?

2009-04-24 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Andrew Ross writes: > Just one thought. I use CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX all the time and it has > always just worked for me. Are you sure you are working in a completely > clean build tree? Resetting CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX in an old tree does not > automatically update all the other CMAKE_INSTALL_xxx

Re: [Plplot-devel] cmake troubles, user error?

2009-04-24 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Woops, one part badly worded, correction below. Geoffrey Furnish writes: > BTW #2: It doesn't seem to me like you should have to set > CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH if you want something other than xx "unless" > CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/lib. Why isn't

[Plplot-devel] cmake troubles, user error?

2009-04-24 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Hi guys, I'm having some problems building. Trying not to look too stupid here... I've built Tcl and Tk and installed them to $HOME/plplot/t4/install. Then I configure plplot thusly: % cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/plplot/t4/install -DCMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/plplot/t4/install/lib -DENA

Re: [Plplot-devel] [Plplot-cvs] SF.net SVN: plplot:[9820] trunk/cmake/modules/wingcc.cmake

2009-04-22 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Werner Smekal writes: > Hi Arjen, > > > > Hi Werner, > > > > CMake 2.6.3 does indeed solve the issue - I have reverted my change. > > > > So I guess, that would be the minimum version of CMake that is > > guaranteed to build PLplot on the MSYS platform. Should we enforce > > that > > fo

Re: [Plplot-devel] Is it time to retire the gd and gcw device drivers?

2009-04-21 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Hi Alan, Alan W. Irwin writes: > I would like to permanently disable the gd and gcw device drivers as well > as the gnome2 and pygcw bindings associated with the gcw device driver for > this forthcoming release. > > Here is my justification for this proposed change. > [...] > * gd and gcw

Re: [Plplot-devel] Distributed version control resources

2009-03-30 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > Although relatively few PLplot developers are currently enthused about a > move to a distributed version control system (DVCS), that may change in the > future so it is important to pay attention to DVCS articles. Today, I found > the following useful references: "Distri

Re: [Plplot-devel] plplot version 5.9.3?

2009-03-25 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > To the rest of the core developers here, please let us know immediately if > you have some development going on that makes an early May release > inconvenient for you. Early May is good for me. I've been meaning to post a note giving people an idea of waht's on my mind

Re: [Plplot-devel] SF adds support for git, anyone interested?

2009-03-25 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > On 2009-03-24 22:55-0600 Geoffrey Furnish wrote: > > > To that end, I'd like to ask Alan specifically, again, to identify with > > specificity, what you think the specific requirements for such a transition > > would be, from your perspect

Re: [Plplot-devel] SF adds support for git, anyone interested?

2009-03-24 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Hello all, Geoffrey Furnish writes: > The main purpose in this post is just to sample the other developers, all > of you who are currently much more actively involved in PLplot than I am, > or even than I expect to be once I regain my stride, so to speak, and just > see if any of

Re: [Plplot-devel] SF adds support for git, anyone interested?

2009-03-13 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > On 2009-03-13 10:17-0600 Geoffrey Furnish wrote: > > [...]The main purpose in this post is just to sample the other > > developers, all of you who are currently much more actively involved in > > PLplot than I am, or even than I expect to be on

Re: [Plplot-devel] Qt file devices segfault

2009-03-13 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > However, I still don't understand why valgrind reported no issues on my > platform without your recent changes. Segfaults can come and go (although > usually a segfault does show up for one of our 31 examples if there is a > memory management issue with the device drive

Re: [Plplot-devel] SF adds support for git, anyone interested?

2009-03-13 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Werner Smekal writes: > I often commit "unfinished" work for only one reason - not to loose it. > My laptop is old, the harddisk may get corrupt. I often spend some hours > work and don't want to loose it. With git I can commit more often to my > local repository which is fine. But if my lap

[Plplot-devel] SF adds support for git, anyone interested?

2009-03-13 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Hello all, Greetings after a long sabatical. I've been lately trying again to get re-engaged with PLplot development. One of the first things I'm trying to get done, is to merge the python branch that I had worked on about 15 months ago, and get that stuff onto trunk. Then there is some more p

Re: [Plplot-devel] Tcl 8.5

2008-01-09 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Maurice LeBrun writes: > On Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at 21:30:21 (-0700) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > In fact, I can't tell any difference between what is built in the two > > versions. Does Itcl add anything to plplot? > > A nicer file selector, I think that's it. In the $prefix/share/p

Re: [Plplot-devel] Preparing for our first post-5.8.0 development release

2007-11-21 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > If I don't hear any such objections, I plan to go ahead with the big svn > delete this weekend, and I am looking forward to a leaner svn trunk version > that is much easier to understand as a result. Sounds good to me. ---

Re: [Plplot-devel] cmake, python, and operator stupidity, was Re: 5.8.0 Release?

2007-11-06 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > > [...]BTW, when I gnerated the above cmake configuraiton diff, it didn't > > take effect when I merely removed the cache and reran cmake. I had to > > run cmake fresh in an empty build dir, to get the .../relink.txt file to > > be regenerated. Is there a way to get cm

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.8.0 Release?

2007-11-05 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > >From later e-mail you appear to have solved this by dropping linking of > python libraries, but that may just hide the problem until later when > you actually try and execute the code. Possibly. I haven't gotten as far as testing it yet. But, btw, if you study how the

Re: [Plplot-devel] cmake, python, and operator stupidity, was Re: 5.8.0 Release?

2007-11-05 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Geoffrey Furnish writes: > But now, make install fails: > > Install the project... > -- Install configuration: "" > CMake Error: Error in cmake code at > .../plplot/tmp2/cmake_install.cmake:35: > FILE cannot create directory: /share/doc/plplot. Maybe need ad

[Plplot-devel] cmake, python, and operator stupidity, was Re: 5.8.0 Release?

2007-11-05 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Geoffrey Furnish writes: > So, question: Can anyone help me understnad how > bindings/python/CMakeFiles/_plplotcmodule.dir/relink.txt is generated, and > suggest how I might fix it's generation to not name the unnecessary and > trouble-causing "-lpython2.5"? I

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.8.0 Release?

2007-11-05 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > Geoffrey asked: > > "So I guess the > question is, how can I make "find_package(PythonInterp)" find the python > that's in the prefix, instead of the one that's in the path?" > > Try changing PATH so the "special" python is what you get when you execute > the "pyth

Re: [Plplot-devel] CBS testing on Fedora

2006-11-02 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > Geoffrey, your assumption is incorrect. As I have made clear from the > first (and also in a recent post to this list), autotools will be > deprecated (since nobody has stepped forward to support it any more) but > available (including configure and plplot_libtool) in th

Re: [Plplot-devel] CBS testing on Fedora

2006-11-02 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Orion Poplawski writes: > Orion Poplawski wrote: > > > > Missing, presumably will come later once docs are pre-built: > > /usr/share/info > > /usr/share/man > > > > Missing, presumably go for good with CBS? > > /usr/bin/plplot-config > > /usr/bin/plplot_libtool Sorry to be tardy on this