Re: [Plplot-devel] Exclusions from the sys tree in our next release tarball

2007-08-13 Thread Arjen Markus
Alan W. Irwin wrote: >The command > >find sys -type d |grep -v .svn > >reveals the following subdirectories of sys (edited to get rid of redundancy): > >sys/mac >sys/win32 >sys/os2 >sys/unix >sys/dos/msc >sys/dos/djgpp >sys/dos/bcc >sys/dos/emx >sys/win-tk > >My judgement is sys/mac, sys/os2, sys/

Re: [Plplot-devel] Using OS X "Skim" to view PLplot PS files

2007-08-13 Thread Andrew Ross
Jerry, When plplot writes any file it uses fopen to open the file first, with the "wb+" options to make the file writeable and to truncate the file if it already exists. This is the standard C way to deal with opening files so I'm surprised it doesn't work. What do the Skim people "recommend" as

Re: [Plplot-devel] Release

2007-08-13 Thread Orion Poplawski
Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2007-08-11 21:05-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: >> Should I continue to address these issues rather than the next release? > > Whatever course is more efficient for you is probably the one you should > follow. Whatever you decide is fine with me. > From my perspective, it

[Plplot-devel] 5.7.4 release issues

2007-08-13 Thread Hazen Babcock
The release went ok (at least I think...) given the cvs -> svn change. Thanks Alan for your work updating the release scripts. However, I ran onto the following problems: (1) I could not build the documentation, i.e.: cd /tmp/plplot-dist-prep/build_dir/doc/docbook/src make www-install Gave

[Plplot-devel] 5.7.4 Release

2007-08-13 Thread Hazen Babcock
Hello, 5.7.4, the latest PLplot development release is now available for download. The plan is that this will be the last development release prior to our next stable release, 5.8.0. Highlights include the Python numeric -> numpy switch, improved ADA binding and a new family of drivers ba

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.7.4 release issues

2007-08-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Hazen (off list): Thanks again for your release efforts which are really helping to promote PLplot, give us useful feedback from users, etc. More comment below in context. On 2007-08-13 21:20-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > > The release went ok (at least I think...) given the cvs -> svn > chang

Re: [Plplot-devel] Using OS X "Skim" to view PLplot PS files

2007-08-13 Thread Jerry
On Aug 13, 2007, at 2:36 AM, Andrew Ross wrote: > > Jerry, > > When plplot writes any file it uses fopen to open the file first, with > the "wb+" options to make the file writeable and to truncate the > file if > it already exists. This is the standard C way to deal with opening > files so I'm