'with pixels' (was Re: Engines are started; ...)

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> 1)  With contributions from Ethan and Per, there are a good number of 
> drivers covered so far:  x11, postscript family (postscript, epslatex, 
> pstex), png, pdf, aqua.  The one main one not covered is probably 
> Windows in some form.  However, the software should at least default to 
> using filled polygons for that case if pm3d is available.

I had forgotten: so 'with pixels' needs a terminal API extension, it
seems?  I'll have a look.  But don't expect anything to happen on the
Windows front soon --- we're still short-handed on people willing touch
anything Windoze.

> 2)  There are some messages in the patch that come up the first time a 
> feature is used that eventually can be weeded out. 

Please turn all of them into calls of our usual debugging macro
FPRINTF() soon.  We don't really want or need developer debug print out
in the regular build that serve no purpose to the ordinary user.

I'm not terribly happy with some of the changes.  Especially those where
the signature of old gnuplot functions is extended conditionally. I think
we've learned from PM3D that this generally doesn't work out well in the
long run.  I would prefer just adding the new arguments unconditionally.

BTW: I took the liberty of deleting the dozens of outdated version of your
patch from the patch tracker, keeping only what appeared to be the latest
versions of independent files --- that patch tracker entry is a menace to
society at its current length!

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.