Re: [Plplot-devel] Follow ups for commit c27eff0

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

Hi Alan,



That definitely looks worth our while - makes it all more systematic, but as you said, this is post-release stuff :).



Regards,



Arjen



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@be...]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 7:45 PM
> To: Arjen Markus; PLplot development list
> Subject: Follow ups for commit c27eff0
>
> Hi Arjen:
>
> After the release I suggest you use CMake to automate what you did for commit
> c27eff0 as follows:
>
> * Move scripts/compare.c to utils/compare.c (using "git mv") since this is code for a
> utility and not a script.
>
> * Build compare.exe using add_executable in utils/CMakeLists.txt.
>
> * Move run_examples_windows.bat run_examples_windows.bat.in (using "git mv")
> and use CMake to configure scripts/run_examples_windows.bat in the build tree
> from that template file to insert the build-tree location of compare.exe.
>
> If you like these build and configuration ideas to automate your work, then I
> emphasize you should not do anything about this now until after the release, i.e.,
> this is something for your post-release ToDo list.  But since I woke up this morning
> with these ideas I thought I had better mention them to you now before I forgot
> about them again!  :-)
>
> Alan
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