Re: Gentlemen, start your engines...

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan A Merritt wrote:

> Already listed in NEWS
>  * NEW plot style "with points" can read variable point size from input file
>  * NEW 3D plots can read RGB color triples as part of input data

Alright.


>>* macros.dem (this one appears to fail)
> 
> 
> Works here.
> You may be confused by the message from the recursion test;
> basically it tries to recurse until it hits a limit, which triggers
> a message telling you how deep the recursion can go.

Oh.


>>* starmap.dem
> Called by datastrings.dem
>>* colorwheel.dem (doesn't seem to do anything)
> called by rainbow.dem

Demos calling subdemos, didn't think of that.


>>It would be nice to move demos that are interactive or aren't general 
>>in nature to subdirectories and have all demos that are in the base 
>>(/demo) as part of all.dem.
> 
> 
> Why?  I think it is far more logical to have all the demos in one
> place, so you don't have to go hunting around for them.

I suppose.


>>User who go to demo now and run "all.dem" will think they've seen 
>>all the demos and will not take to time to look at all the demos.
>>But with subdirectories, s/he will notice "oh there are some mouse demos"
> 
> 
> That's more of an argument for renaming "all.dem" to "check.dem"
> than it is an argument for splitting up the demos into multiple directories.

Good point.  The "all" isn't quite accurate.  Hmm... "demos.dem"?  Without saying "all" though, it looses the suggestion that it is a collection of demos.

Dan