Re: [Plplot-general] Status of yplot

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

On 2008-07-13 16:19-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> Nevertheless, if someone still wants to plot with yplot but cannot do so
> because they have Yorick-2 installed, then please get in touch with me
> privately, and I can instruct you how to build and use the Yorick-2
> compatible yplot that I have cobbled together at the moment.

What was cobbled together before is now running pretty smoothly thanks to a
new CMake-based build system for yplot that I put together today and
commited to the svn trunk of yplot.  If you want to give this version of
yplot a try, then (1) make sure the yplot_svn directory does not exist, (2)
execute

svn checkout https://yplot.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/yplot/trunk yplot_svn

to create yplot_svn and fill it with the new yplot source tree, and (3)
follow the rest of the instructions in yplot_svn/INSTALL.

The new build system builds the svn trunk version of yplot without problems
on my Debian testing platform thanks to a build-system option which works
around the Debian yorick-dev bug
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=490597) that I mentioned
before.  (See the above INSTALL file for more details about this option.)
The resulting yplot executable seems to work well for my research plots with
no changes required in my legacy Yorick *.i include files to control the
plotting with yplot.

Your feedback on this svn trunk version of yplot would be welcome.

Alan
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University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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