Re: [Plplot-devel] Some minor debugging probably all that is required to obtain a binary release of PLplot for windows

2006-12-20 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Arjen, The problem with the additional libraries is that right now we rely on them being present at build-time and at run-time - we do not have mechanisms to detect whether they are actually available at run-time. Nothing to worry about in the current way of working, but a nuisance

Re: [Plplot-devel] Some minor debugging probably all that is required to obtain a binary release of PLplot for windows

2006-12-20 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Jim, What third party libraries do I need to include? You don't need to include them, but they provide additional functionality or drivers. In the moment these are: * gd library - used for the gd driver (png, jpeg, gif output) * freetype library - used for nice font rendering in some

Re: [Plplot-devel] Some minor debugging probably all that is required to obtain a binary release of PLplot for windows

2006-12-20 Thread Arjen Markus
Werner Smekal wrote: * qhull library - not sure actually, but I think it is used for interpolation in grids, so they look more nicely (or something similar :) qhull is a library/program to determine the convex hull of a set of points in n dimensions. The CSIRO library that is part of

Re: [Plplot-devel] Ada bindings

2006-12-20 Thread Jerry
On Dec 20, 2006, at 4:50 AM, Werner Smekal wrote: Hi Jerry, I've spotted your bindings to ada already some time ago. Normally such bindings go into the bindings directory (in the ada case, bindings/ada), and since swig doesn't seem to support ada, your effort was the only possible.

Re: [Plplot-devel] Ada bindings

2006-12-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Jerry wrote (earlier): I'd like to know if there is any interest in including these bindings with the PLplot distribution. Hi Jerry: Yes, there is some interest assuming you are willing to donate your code under our preferred license which is the LGPL. We would need e-mail stating that from

[Plplot-devel] Bug Tracker

2006-12-20 Thread Jim Dishaw
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