[Plplot-devel] New Fortran binding has now landed on master

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

I am happy to report I just landed a big topic (complete update of our
Fortran binding and Fortran examples that Arjen and I have been
working on for some time) on master.

If you update your local master branches to the latest version
(commit id 498019cf) you will see that commit is the last of 70 (!)
commits that Arjen and I collaborated on (using "git
format-patch"/"git am") using a private topic branch.

This commit finalized the Fortran PLplot API and also passed all my
comprehensive tests so it was time to land this topic. I did that
following the method documented in README.developers.  However, that
method is a little more scary when you are dealing with 70 commits
rather than just one or two maintenance commits.  But everything
worked very well as you can see.

To see our motivation for working so hard on this topic, please
consult the notes about this Fortran binding rewrite in
README.release.  The net result I think is Fortran is for the very
first time one of our most powerful language bindings, and that fits
in quite well with our advertising PLplot as a scientific plotting
library because modern Fortran (2003 or later) is in something of a
renaissance with scientists now that it has gained so many high-power
capabilities compared to Fortran 77.

I am in a celebratory mood tonight because of this joint achievement
with Arjen, and I am sure he is feeling the same way!

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state
implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time
Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project
(unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net);
and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net).
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