[Plplot-cvs] SF.net SVN: plplot:[12134] trunk

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Revision: 12134
          http://plplot.svn.sourceforge.net/plplot/?rev=12134&view=rev
Author:   airwin
Date:     2012-01-17 19:20:11 +0000 (Tue, 17 Jan 2012)
Log Message:
-----------
Speed up the deprecation/removal of the f77 bindings and examples as
discussed on list.

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/README.release
    trunk/cmake/modules/fortran.cmake

Modified: trunk/README.release
===================================================================
--- trunk/README.release	2012-01-16 18:39:42 UTC (rev 12133)
+++ trunk/README.release	2012-01-17 19:20:11 UTC (rev 12134)
@@ -148,18 +148,19 @@
 as well all g77's legacy features).
 
 An important consequence is that we can not test the implementation for
-compliance to the FORTRAN 77 standard. Current Fortran compilers do
-allow this for the Fortran 95 standard.
+compliance to the FORTRAN 77 standard. 
+Furthermore, we would prefer to concentrate all our Fortran
+development effort on our f95 bindings and strongly encourage all our
+Fortran users to use those bindings if they haven't switched from the
+f77 version already. Therefore, as of this release we are deprecating
+the f77 bindings and examples and plan no further support for them.
+We signal this deprecation by disabling f77 by default (although our
+users can still get access to these unsupported bindings and examples
+for now by specifying the -DENABLE_f77=ON cmake option).
 
-We therefore want to encourage anyone who uses PLplot with Fortran programs
-to use the Fortran 95 bindings. In the next release we will turn off
-the FORTRAN 77 bindings by default. That is, you can still build them
-and use them but you will need to specify that explicitly via the
-CMake options.
+We plan to completely remove the f77 bindings and examples
+two releases after this one.
 
-In some future release we will deprecate these bindings. When this
-will happen has not been decided yet.
-
 (5.9.10) We have found that some distributions of the Windows
 MinGW/gfortran compiler (i.e., MinGW/gfortran 4.6.1 and 4.6.2 from
 http://www.equation.com) may cause a link error due to duplicate

Modified: trunk/cmake/modules/fortran.cmake
===================================================================
--- trunk/cmake/modules/fortran.cmake	2012-01-16 18:39:42 UTC (rev 12133)
+++ trunk/cmake/modules/fortran.cmake	2012-01-17 19:20:11 UTC (rev 12134)
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
   option(ENABLE_f77 "Enable f77 bindings" OFF)
   option(ENABLE_f95 "Enable f95 bindings" OFF)
 else(DEFAULT_NO_BINDINGS)
-  option(ENABLE_f77 "Enable f77 bindings" ON)
+  option(ENABLE_f77 "Enable f77 bindings" OFF)
   option(ENABLE_f95 "Enable f95 bindings" ON)
 endif(DEFAULT_NO_BINDINGS)
 

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