Re: Configuration options [was: Policy question - to PM3D or not to PM3D?]

[Robert H. <en...@no...>]

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 14:34 -0700, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> Which reminds me... I did some small amount of such cleanup recently.
> You might have a look and see how much of the special-casing of the
> BINARY code is not necessary.

There was some investigation about Mircrowave OS9 support (which is
special cases in some of the data reading code) - I posted a message on
comp.os.os9 newsgroup. The replies I've got (and my impression from
reading other posts on the groups is that)

- if any new version of gnuplot were to be built it would be with gnu
tools, and therefore special cases probably wouldn't be needed (and
certainly not for the same functions)

- nobody is still using gnuplot on that platform (in fact very few
people are using the platform at all - and mostly for extreme legacy
stuff - i.e. I can't see them upgrading anyway)

- the last version of gnuplot to be built was early in the 3.x series
(possibly 3.1)

Therefore I think we can drop any #define OSK that are "in the way" -
and maybe throughout the codebase if somebody feels there is something
to be gained by that.

Rob

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Robert Hart <en...@no...>
University of Nottingham


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