From: Arjen M. <arj...@wl...> - 2006-11-27 08:41:43
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Werner Smekal wrote: > > As written before, it is possible, but with problems. With Vista also > a new powershell was developed also for windows xp, but I don't want > to learn another syntax - and as you said not nearly compatible to > unix scripts .... but super powerful with objects and classes .... > I am not looking forward to learning yet another such language either. And Windows Vista may be just over the horizon, it is not a common platform as yet, so we should not target it. >> I would opt for Tcl :). Or Jim, a very lean implementation of Tcl, >> which I used >> already for the old build system. This is lean enough to distribute >> along with the >> PLplot source, so that would make testing independent of the presence >> of Python, >> Perl or Tcl or whatever on the system. > > > Tcl is also not commonly used in the Windows world, I think, but if > jim is distributed with the plplot source and compiles with most of > the compilers used, this should also be okay, I think. I will see what can be done here. The source code for Jim is very clean, so that should be no problem. Perhaps we can simply revert to DOS batch files, but that is something I need to look into. Anyway, it would be great to unify this aspect of PLplot too. Regards, Arjen |