RE: patches,..Re: [Plplot-general] PLplot 5.0.0 is released

[Geoffrey F. <fu...@ac...>]

Vince Darley writes:
 > Some time soon I'm going to try to tackle the task of integrating my
 > changes into 5.0.  

Please remember, new feature development goes on 5.1 (the cvs head).
5.0 is supposed to be a stabilization release, for minor bug fixes.

 > My changes are quite varied, so hopefully I'll be able
 > to split them into a number of separate, independent patches.  However,
 > before I start that, I have a couple of questions:
 > 
 > (i) Does plplot support building any form of loadable extension for
 > Tcl/Tk?  (i.e. a shared library Plxxx50.so which can be loaded into Tcl/Tk
 > via 'load Plxxx50').

No, not at this time.  This is an obviously desirable improvment.

 > (ii) Does plplot support cross-compilation (particularly for a cygwin
 > hosted system to build linux executables)?

I don't know how to answer that question.  I've used cross tools
before (for other things).  Ordinarily I am accustomed to just using a 
particular gcc at a cerain path location, or mabye a stock gcc with a
special -B or -V option to pick out the cross tool components.  To
this extent--that is, just asuming your cross tool gcc/binutils are in 
your path--it should "just work".  If you need some more specific kind 
of support, please elaborate.

 > (iii) Is there any configure/makefile support for non-unix based
 > platforms?

Historically, Mac, OS/2, DOS/DJGPP and Amiga ports have all been done
through a seperate makefile, independent of the unixoid configure at
the top of the tree.  I've never gotten around to building on NT yet,
but if I did, I would start by seeing if the existing configure script 
would work okay on a cygwin platform.

 > p.s. Does plplot 5 fix the 'M = J' bug evident in the standard font
 > library (but not the extended font lib)?

I haven't looked into the matter.

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