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

2009-04-22 Thread Andrew Ross
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:09:45PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > On 2009-04-21 23:24-0500 Maurice LeBrun wrote: > > > These are excellent points. I too work for a ginormous corporation for > > which > > RHEL4 represents state-of-the-art tech. And have similar doubts that will > > change for a coup

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

2009-04-22 Thread Arjen Markus
On 2009-04-22 09:01, Andrew Ross wrote: > > I'm with Geoffrey and Maurice on the gd driver. I still use it on several > (old and new) systems. Yes, I could switch to cairo / qt on some of those > systems, but not all and there is an inertia to stick with the driver you > know. Plus the gd has

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

2009-04-22 Thread Arjen Markus
On 2009-04-20 10:10, Werner Smekal wrote: > Hi Arjen, > > I tested now your path in MSYS and it works. So far so good, but if I > revert your changes it works as well! > > I don't understand this: > >> +# Use fixed names instead >> +# Note: MINGWLIBPATH gave problem: CACHE unknown comp

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

2009-04-22 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Arjen, On 22.04.2009, at 09:08, Arjen Markus wrote: > On 2009-04-22 09:01, Andrew Ross wrote: > >> >> I'm with Geoffrey and Maurice on the gd driver. I still use it on >> several >> (old and new) systems. Yes, I could switch to cairo / qt on some of >> those >> systems, but not all and the

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

2009-04-22 Thread Werner Smekal
On 22.04.2009, at 09:01, Andrew Ross wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:09:45PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: >> On 2009-04-21 23:24-0500 Maurice LeBrun wrote: >> >>> These are excellent points. I too work for a ginormous >>> corporation for which >>> RHEL4 represents state-of-the-art tech. And ha

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

2009-04-22 Thread Werner Smekal
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 just for MSYS? Good to know. I woul

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

2009-04-22 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Werner, ah! Thanks for reminding me - my search keywords were something like: "cairo windows library". So I need to install GTK+ to get convenient access to the cairo libraries ... hm. Regards, Arjen On 2009-04-22 09:35, Werner Smekal wrote: > Hi Arjen, > > On 22.04.2009, at 09:08, Arjen Ma

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

2009-04-22 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Arjen, On 22.04.2009, at 09:40, Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Werner, > > ah! Thanks for reminding me - my search keywords were something like: > "cairo windows library". So I need to install GTK+ to get convenient > access to the cairo libraries ... hm. You don't need to install the whole gtk lib

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

2009-04-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-04-22 09:39+0200 Werner Smekal wrote: > 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 >

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

2009-04-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-04-22 09:38+0200 Werner Smekal wrote: > Same here. On Windows it's much easier to install the gd library then the > cairo/pango library. I still us the gd driver and would like to do so in the > future. So as Alan already wrote, keep it in the CBS but do not enable it by > default. > O

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

2009-04-22 Thread Arjen Markus
On 2009-04-22 19:24, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2009-04-22 09:39+0200 Werner Smekal wrote: >> >> Good to know. I would only bump up the required version for MSYS since >> older version seem to work well for other platforms. > > Hi Arjen and Werner: > > I have been following your discussion with in