Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot Debian package

2017-07-15 Thread Ole Streicher
Hi Alan, thanks for the answers, and thanks for connecting with Orion. I hope to keep everything together here. > Yes. We have long since implemented a CMake-based build system for > the installed example source code + installed binary libraries that > implements the test_diff_psc, etc.,

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot Debian package

2017-07-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-07-15 11:49+0200 Ole Streicher wrote: Hi Ole: I feel that most of the issues you have brought up such as installation directories and spelling are ones we should be able to address fairly quickly so expect to see some commits from me over the next few days dealing with them. So my

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot Debian package

2017-07-15 Thread Ole Streicher
Hi Alan, On 15.07.2017 20:37, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Sometimes our bindings libraries have the same core name (e.g., > wxwidgets, qt) as the device driver, but bindings libraries and > device drivers are completely different and there is no chance of a > nameclash between them. So there should

[Plplot-devel] First proof-of-concept step requested to implement PLplot error handling

2017-07-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-07-15 11:49+0200 Ole Streicher wrote: Another (probable longer-standing) topic would be the use of exit() in several libraries in case of error. That usually has the disadvantage that it makes debugging more complicated, since you don't get a stacktrace; abort() may be the better

Re: [Plplot-devel] First proof-of-concept step requested to implement PLplot errorhandling

2017-07-15 Thread p.d.rosenberg
Hi Alan Proof of concept was a little more than 20 or so lines  I'll pull out the code I started and check where is stands. Phil Sent from my Windows 10 phone From: Alan W. Irwin Sent: 15 July 2017 21:50 To: Phil Rosenberg; Ole Streicher Cc: Hazen Babcock; andrewr...@users.sourceforge.net;

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot Debian package

2017-07-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-07-15 14:43-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: There is , but that link is now broken, the linux magazin search function cannot find it, I never understood that article because it was written in German, and by now it would be