Re: [Plplot-general] PLplot-5.2.0 has just been released!

[Rafael L. <lab...@ps...>]

* Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> [2003-01-21 10:23]:

> On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Robert Schwebel wrote:
> 
> > What's the state of the Perl/PDL interface?
> 
> I don't know about PDL since that is an independent effort (see Doug Hunt's
> messages to this list right after PLplot-5.1.0 was released last year).

Well, my original Perl bindings code had some limited support to PDL.
However, I think that Doug's approach should be superior than mine.

> We do have a rudimentary perl interface as part of generic PLplot, but that
> is unsupported at this time because its developer ran out of time to work
> on it.

(That is me.  I am still unable to participate to the PLplot effort.  Too
many things on the way.)

> Personally, I think we should abandon that approach (which depended on
> parsing the API from our DocBook API chapter) and go with swig instead.

Well, my approach combined both parsing the XML source of the API _and_
usign swig (see bindings/perl5/README).  I do not think that parsing the XML
source is a bad idea, provided that the plplot.h is also automatically
generated.  It is unacceptable to have two sources of the same information
being maintained in parallel.  

-- 
Rafael