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.tcl

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 would

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: 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 13557

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 13557

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: tcl Missing examples

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=$HOME/devel/8.4/prefix -DCMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=$HOME/devel/8.4/prefix/include -DCMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH

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 cmake line like this: % cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME

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 tcl8.2

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 whole

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 with

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've

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, generated

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 function does

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 working (blank results or one giant triangle

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 removed.

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 thing. I haven't gotten around to trying

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 don't build --enable-shared, then you can

[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

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 if people could look over bindings/python/CMakeLists.txt

[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 the past I found

[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] plConfig.h and HAVE_* macros

2009-06-25 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
-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 Ross writes: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 02:31:08PM +0300, Dmitri

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 topic. With

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,

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.

[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 \ cmake \

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/icf/include, and the corresponding

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 as well with

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 you.

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 tk04 invalid

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 CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/lib the default

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 directory,

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 prints out verbose information when you want without

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 built tree. Well, I must be missing something

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 we

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 for all builds or

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:

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 perspective. My own view of this list

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 you would

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 laptop

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 once I regain my stride, so

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

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 cmake to

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 python command.

[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 got as far as: % svn diff bindings

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 administrative privi leges. Current

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, had meant to