Re: [Plplot-general] Want to share a c++ wrapper plplot dll with libgd

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

On 2006-06-30 15:54-0400 Ruwei Liu wrote:

> Hi, All,
>
>    I've worked out a .Net c++ wrapper dll based on the plplot 5.6.1-RC
> source code, and made some changes
> to let it have GD support(GD 2.0.33). It works fine as far as my test
> shows. I want to share it so that others will not
> need to repeat the work.
>   This is my first time to participate in such activities, I don't know
> the rules, and I'm not quite sure what I shall do
> to publish my work here. Could anybody kindly help me figure it out?
>   Thanks!

The usual way to donate code to the PLplot project is with a patch file.

The way to generate a patch file with Linux is

diff -Naur old_clean_tree new_clean_tree >patch.out

where old_clean_tree would be the result of a freshly unpacked 5.6.1
tarball, and new_clean_tree is the same except for your source code changes
but nothing else (i.e., nothing compiled in either tree).  In general you
should look over the patch file to make sure all the changed and new files
there are exactly what you want.

Then submit patch.out to the plplot_devel mailing list as an attachment
(preferred) or else submit it to
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=2915&atid=302915. Either submission
method will give the core developers a chance to evaluate whether we want to
include your patch in PLplot or not or perhaps provide the same
functionality in a different way or whatever.

Good luck with the patch generation, and thanks for making an effort to
submit code to PLplot.

Alan
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