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

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

Thanks for these clarifications of the status of dynamic Tk driver.  I will
drop this from the release wish list.

Alan

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On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Maurice LeBrun wrote:

> 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:
>  > ...
>  >
>  > | > | (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 this 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 libplplot and some
>  > | > | require additional links to their own special libraries.
>  > | > | Wouldn't those special libraries just be the Tk library for the
>  > | > | 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 driver
>  > | > (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?
>  >
>  > I'm sorry, I have forgot other details. I had already deeply
>  > investigated this, and it is *not possible* to make the tk driver
>  > dyn-loadable without serious changes in the library itself. That's
>  > one of the reasons why I started the (not yet funtional) ntk driver.
>  > ...
>  >
>  > Joao
>
> And I'd planned to defer those "serious changes" to when the TEA branch g=
ets
> merged in, after AM/LT (or perhaps at the same time).  I really am going =
to
> work on this :), but not till next month.
>
> --
> Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...
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