[Plplot-general] Recent success with the python PLplot module on Darwin/Mac OS X

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

I don't have access to the Darwin/MacOS X environment myself, but by working
closely with users with such access I have made CVS changes that allow the
building of a shared PLplot library in that environment. Furthermore, those
users report success of the build of the plplot python modules, plmodule.so
and pyqt_plmodule.so.  Also pythondemos.py apparently exercises all xw??.py
examples without problems.  My thanks to Dustin Tang and Robb Brown for
all their useful feedback on my CVS changes.

So those of you with access to Darwin/MacOS X (with or without Python),
please give the latest CVS (the anonymous CVS access instructions are at
http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=2915) version of PLplot a thrashing and
let me know what you think.

Note to python users on *any* platform.  Currently it only works for the
double-precision version of plplot (configure option --with-double). Some
day we might have a python solution for the default single-precision version
of plplot as well.

Alan

email: ir...@be...
phone: 250-727-2902	FAX: 250-721-7715
snail-mail:
Dr. Alan W. Irwin
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055,
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P6
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