PLplot

Hi Alan:  I will try to start adding in new perl/PDL tests to cover the 
API changes.

Regards,

   Doug Hunt

dhunt@...
Software Engineer
UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> As of revision 11696 I have disabled Perl/PDL examples in tests by
> default as a signal that Perl/PDL is a language that no longer
> completely supports PLplot.
>
> The reason for this change is that the external PDL::Graphics::PLplot
> project is missing too much of the new PLplot functionality.  For
> example, according to the Changes file at
> http://search.cpan.org/~dhunt/PDL-Graphics-PLplot-0.52, the last
> attempt to update the PDL::Graphics::PLplot to be consistent with new
> PLplot API was for PDL-Graphics-PLplot-0.46 which was released more
> than two years ago.
>
> I would be happy to reinstate the Perl/PDL tests by default and also
> help a bit with the necessary Perl/PDL example propagation to obtain
> consistency with our C examples results once PDL::Graphics::PLplot has
> been updated to include the new PLplot API that has been developed
> over the last couple of years.
>
> Alan
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> University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).
>
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On 2011-04-12 13:38-0600 Doug Hunt wrote:

> Hi Alan:  I will try to start adding in new perl/PDL tests to cover the API 
> changes.
>
> Regards,
>
>  Doug Hunt

That would be great, Doug.

>> I would be happy to reinstate the Perl/PDL tests by default and also
>> help a bit with the necessary Perl/PDL example propagation to obtain
>> consistency with our C examples results once PDL::Graphics::PLplot has
>> been updated to include the new PLplot API that has been developed
>> over the last couple of years.

Alan
__________________________
Alan W. Irwin

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
__________________________

Linux-powered Science
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