Re: [Plplot-devel] Wish list for the release

[Joao C. <jca...@in...>]

On Tuesday 11 December 2001 23:50, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
| I haven't been able to spend as much time as I wanted to on Plplot so t=
here
| is still a lot for me to do before the release.  Thus, I am backing awa=
y
| from a release within a few days.  I won't put it off for a long time, =
but
| this should give all of you a chance to do a bit more before the releas=
e.
|
| Here is my wish list for the release.  Feel free to modify it, but let'=
s

=2E..

| (9) Get command-line parameter parsing to work for octave x examples.
| (Joao).  This is needed so that, for example, the -fam and -fnum parame=
ters
| work for the drivers that require familying, but it would also be nice =
to
| see this work for all parameters (like it does for the p octave example=
s).


I can try this, but now I'm too busy.

=2E..
| (12) IMO, the most egregious bug for the plplot library shows up for x0=
8c
| with the non-smooth edges (missing triangles) to the hidden parts of th=
e
| plot for pages 5 through 8 (the 3D shade plot demonstration). If a C ex=
pert
| here is wondering how they can chip in, it would be *wonderful* to fina=
lly
| get rid of this bug.


Yes, this worries me too, but it is not a matter of C expertise. I think =
that=20
Geoffrey has already tried to correct it, and if I remember correctly he =
said=20
"better to write it from the begining"
|
| (13) dynamic tk and xwin driver.  (probably Joao).  My impression from
| commented out parts of the code that I reviewed for the cgm driver is t=
his
| might be ready to go now that we understand exactly what is required in
| the gd and cgm cases.  Every dynamic driver requires a link to libplplo=
t
| and some require additional links to their own special libraries.  Woul=
dn't
| those special libraries just be the Tk library for the tk driver and th=
e X
| libraries for the xwin driver?


The xwin and tk drivers can't be made dynamic.

There is no problem with the xwin driver alone, but the tk driver (either=
=20
static or dynamic) won't work with a dynamic xwin driver. The tk driver n=
eeds=20
some functions that are in the xwin driver.

The only solution, which is not elegant, would be to link tk.o and xwin.o=
 to=20
make tk.drv.

| (14) Joao also mentioned in his last e-mail that he wanted to play with
| plimage a bit more.


Yes, but I had not the time.

| I have probably forgotten some things so feel free to add to this list =
so
| long as the project is reasonably short (a few days or less).


This is an issue that worries me. You make a beatifull job testing plplot=
=20
regularly, and you post your conclusions/bugs/requests. But we might be b=
usy=20
at the time, and your conclusions/requests becomes lost. I always archive=
=20
your testing requests for latter usage, but most of the time I just forgo=
t to=20
use them.

I think that we should start using some mechanism to correct this. A=20
possibility will be using the "tasks manager",=20
http://sourceforge.net/pm/?group_id=3D2915 , creating an entry for each d=
river=20
and language binding. What do you think?

Joao