Re: [Plplot-devel] Backward incompatibilities introduced in 5.5.x

[<mj...@ga...>]

Rafael Laboissiere writes:
 > We have two choices here: either we bump the SOVERSION major number
 > (ack!!!) or we introduce a wrapper for plParseOpts like this:
 > 
 >     int
 >     c_plParseOpts (int *p_argc, char **argv, PLINT mode)
 >     {
 >       c_plparseopts (p_argc, argv, mode);
 >     }
 > 
 > I vote for the second solution.

Definitely.

 > The same problem happens with plhlsrgb and plrgbhls, which appear in
 > x02c.

The new part of x02c that uses plhlsrgb was introduced only recently.
However, it is entirely possible that older apps use plHLS_RGB even
though it wasn't part of the public API.  Since it costs us little
extra to support these, we should.

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Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...