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

[Arjen M. <Arj...@de...>]

Hi Alan, everyone,



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@be...]
> Sent: Monday, January 18, 2016 5:12 AM
> To: PLplot development list
> Subject: [Plplot-devel] New Fortran binding has now landed on master
>
> 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!
>
:) I can confirm that. Overall it has been my most extensive exercise with the ISO_C_BINDING feature and we have been able to eliminate all intermediate C code, which should make the maintenance of this binding easier as well.

There still remains a lot to do: cleaning up the code, properly document it and - a mental note on the promise I made myself and Alan - write it all down in a handy little article. But I am happy that the bulk of the work is done and that it can be shared with everyone.

Regards,

Arjen

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