Re: [Plplot-devel] Adding example 14 to standard tests

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2009-01-06 19:14-0000 Andrew Ross wrote:

>> Would it be straightforward to implement a -stream command-line option that
>> means all subsequent options refer to the specified stream number? That
>> would provide an elegant solution to the example 14 issue with, e.g.,
>>
>> c/x14c -dev psc -o x14ac.psc -stream 1 -dev psc -o x14bc.psc
>
> Or how about anything before the option could be applied to all streams,
> options after a -stream command only apply to that stream, unless
> another -stream option is encountered. Each stream can then call
> plparseopts and only extract the commands meant for it. Default would be
> the current behaviour. A stream can then decide whether or not it wants
> to use command line options. The only down side of this is that the
> (currently internal) stream numbers are exposed to the user.

I like your version better.  If the implementation is straightforward, I would
say go for it prior to this release, otherwise, afterwards.

Alan
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