Re: Qt Wrapper, wx and real-time plots

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

Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Sunday 12 December 2004 08:59 am, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> 
>>I consider fixing this a major goal that absolutely has to be achieved
>>before the next official release (4.2).
> 
> 
> So you don't think there should be an intervening 4.1 release?

IIRC we agreed to switch to a Linux-like versioning scheme as of 4.0. 
I.e. even minor for user releases, odd minor for development versions.


> [...] I am not convinced that the goal of invoking
> multiple parallel copies of the main gnuplot within the same process
> context makes any sense.  Wouldn't it be easier just to fire up multiple
> separate copies of gnuplot?

For gnuplot as a process (the only thing currently existing): yes.  But 
for gnuplot as a (shared) library, that's not an option.  AFAIK, a 
single parent process can't open a single shared library more than once, 
and expect those several instance to have context (i.e. global 
variables) independent of each other beyond a very small number of 
special variables ("instance variables", stored e.g. in the window 
handle of a GUI control).