[Plplot-devel] Date of the forthcoming release

2015-01-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
I previously mentioned a rather soft deadline near the beginning of February for the forthcoming release. This is an important notice for all active PLplot developers that I have just decided to replace that deadline by the firm deadline of Saturday, February 28th for the release which would only

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: metafiles

2015-01-10 Thread Phil Rosenberg
Yes I had thought about netcdf, but it's a bit of a sledgehammer to crack a nut. It also took me most of a day to get it to compile on Windows so I don't think it's worth subjecting our users to it. Hdf5 might be a bit easier, but I haven't really used it. It also supports compression I think, b

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: metafiles

2015-01-10 Thread Phil Rosenberg
Hi Alan and Jim One other implementation option I just thought of - would a command line option be a relatively easy way to indicate that a metafile must be written? Then the core library could do this transparently whatever driver is being used and basically the only code needed would be an if sta

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: metafiles

2015-01-10 Thread Maurice LeBrun
Both the endianness and IEEE float issues are dealt with in a portable way by the functions in src/pdfutils.c. Neither integers or floating point are dependent on the native architecture, making the metafiles 100% portable. 1. Endianness is "little", by fiat, implemented by shifts & masks. 2. Flo

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: metafiles

2015-01-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-01-10 14:57- Phil Rosenberg wrote: > Alan - a question about git procedure. We are going to end up in a > situation here where my wxWidget branch that I've already begun is going to > require access to changes made on other branches. I think the only way to > do this is to merge the ma

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: metafiles

2015-01-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-01-10 13:57-0600 Maurice LeBrun wrote: > Both the endianness and IEEE float issues are dealt with in a portable way by > the functions in src/pdfutils.c. Neither integers or floating point are > dependent on the native architecture, making the metafiles 100% portable. > > 1. Endianness is

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: metafiles

2015-01-10 Thread Maurice LeBrun
On Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 15:54:23 (-0800) Alan W. Irwin writes: > I assume for the purposes of the further discussion that you meant > "internal" physical device coordinates but please confirm that (or > take the rest of what I say with a grain of salt if that assumption is > incorrect)