Re: [Plplot-devel] What are your current plans for the plmeta device?

[Jim D. <ji...@di...>]

I'm still working on plmeta, though my progress is slow right now do to some other commitments. If you want to temporarily disable, that would be fine with me. I will try to see if I can get something finished by the deadline. Thanks and sorry for the delay. 



> On Sep 9, 2015, at 5:48 PM, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jim:
> 
> I believe you have discussed what you wanted to do with the plmeta device
> before, but I am having difficulty finding that dicussion so could you summarize
> again what your plans are?
> 
> This is especially relevant now because the mid-September deadline for
> pushing large changes to the master branch is fast approaching.
> (Although the deadline is a little soft so if you need a week or so
> extra, we can negotiate when that freeze occurs.)
> 
> The plmeta device was recently brought to my attention because it
> currently does not build when I use the option
> -DDEFAULT_ALL_DEVICES=ON. That is obviously a far from ideal result so
> I hope you will be able to fix this issue in the near future.
> 
> As I recall, you are developing command-line options that contain
> essentially all the historical plmeta device capability. If that is
> the case, maybe the way to fix the build issue is simply to comment
> out plmeta from cmake/modules/drivers-init.cmake?  That change would
> temporarily or indefinitely retire that device so
> -DDEFAULT_ALL_DEVICES=ON ignores it.
> 
> Alan
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