Re: [Plplot-devel] compilation under windows

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

On 2004-08-29 09:04+0200 Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> I am afraid java and python do not have the same soversion mechanism that
> exists for C libraries, so that there will be no way to introduced backwards
> incompatible API changes for those bindings without the potential risk of
> breaking users applications.

My own feeling is the swig-generated python and java interfaces are still
relatively new so that our users should expect some backwards-incompatible
API changes and breakage as things settle down.  Also, plarrows was never
part of the common API in any case so it was not documented.  Therefore, I
doubt very many (if any) of our python or java users depend on it.  So I am
inclined to drop plarrows from python and java (say by tomorrow) unless I
hear a strong argument to the contrary.

Alan
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