[Plplot-devel] OpenGL driver development

2011-04-16 Thread chm
I'm starting to develop an OpenGL driver for PLplot and would like to know the best way to participate as a PLplot developer for this contribution. My current plan is as follows: (1) get PLplot SVN to build on cygwin (2) get PLplot on cygwin to work with PDL (I'll be working on #3 a

Re: [Plplot-devel] OpenGL driver development

2011-04-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2011-04-16 11:44-0400 chm wrote: > I'm starting to develop an OpenGL driver for > PLplot We would welcome such a driver, but there are some fundamental issues with OpenGL to be aware of. I have no practical experience with OpenGL myself, but my understanding from reading phoronix (e.g., see th

Re: [Plplot-devel] OpenGL driver development

2011-04-16 Thread chm
On 4/16/2011 1:11 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2011-04-16 11:44-0400 chm wrote: > >> I'm starting to develop an OpenGL driver for >> PLplot > > We would welcome such a driver, but there are some fundamental issues > with OpenGL to be aware of. I have no practical experience with OpenGL > myself, b

Re: [Plplot-devel] OpenGL driver development

2011-04-16 Thread chm
I was able to build the current plplot trunk from svn on cygwin 1.7.7 with some hand-holding: (1) First disable problem options and ones I don't think I needed to get started: cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=install -DENABLE_tk=OFF -DENABLE_tcl=OFF \ -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE

[Plplot-devel] Cygwin/Wine testing of PLplot

2011-04-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2011-04-16 14:25-0400 chm wrote: > On 4/16/2011 1:11 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> [...]and I >> also need some additional time to pursue my idea that it might be >> possible to test PLplot on Cygwin under wine. > >> On 2011-04-16 11:44-0400 chm wrote: > I don't think cygwin testing under wine ha

Re: [Plplot-devel] OpenGL driver development

2011-04-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Chris: On 2011-04-16 17:45-0400 chm wrote: > I was able to build the current plplot trunk > from svn on cygwin 1.7.7 with some hand-holding: > (1) First disable problem options and ones I don't think I needed to get > started: cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=install -DENABLE_tk=OFF