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

[Maurice L. <mj...@ga...>]

Jo=E3o Cardoso writes:
 > On Thursday 13 December 2001 21:53, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
 > | On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Joao Cardoso wrote:
 > | > On Tuesday 11 December 2001 23:50, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
 > ...
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 > | > | (13) dynamic tk and xwin driver.  (probably Joao).  My
 > | > | impression from commented out parts of the code that I reviewe=
d
 > | > | for the cgm driver is this might be ready to go now that we
 > | > | understand exactly what is required in the gd and cgm cases.=20=

 > | > | Every dynamic driver requires a link to libplplot and some
 > | > | require additional links to their own special libraries.=20
 > | > | Wouldn't those special libraries just be the Tk library for th=
e
 > | > | tk driver and the 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 drive=
r
 > | > (either static or dynamic) won't work with a dynamic xwin driver=
.
 > | > The tk driver needs 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 make tk.drv.
 > |
 > | Would you please implement this solution?
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 > I'm sorry, I have forgot other details. I had already deeply=20
 > investigated this, and it is *not possible* to make the tk driver=20=

 > dyn-loadable without serious changes in the library itself. That's=20=

 > one of the reasons why I started the (not yet funtional) ntk driver.=

 > ...
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 > Joao

And I'd planned to defer those "serious changes" to when the TEA branch=
 gets
merged in, after AM/LT (or perhaps at the same time).  I really am goin=
g to
work on this :), but not till next month.

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Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...