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

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On Thursday 17 January 2002 19:25, Geoffrey Furnish wrote:
| Joao Cardoso writes:
|  > What is the purpose of the "new" directory and its "bogus" file?
|
| Mmmm.  Well, cvs log just about says it all.
|
| Or so it would seem.    <wink>

You are right, of course. The 'bogus' file is for "testing",...,"Just=20
a test", "foo". ;)

| :-).
| :
|  > And the bindings/python/1.4b3 subdir?
|
| Stuff that was needed to get PLplot working with python 1.4 beta 3.
|
| I haven't touched the python binding recently, so do not really
| have an up to date and first hand perspective on the current issues
| for the python binding, beyond what is gleaned by reading Alan's
| various emails on the subject.

Again CVS logs don't lie: the files in that subdir (Setup and=20
_tkinter.c) are a "Complete sample of files edited according to the=20
prescription in bindings/python/README". They must be leftovers from=20
the static python building, I guess.

My concern with unknow source or configuration files in cvs is...=20
concern. New people may lose time looking what they are for, there=20
might be configuartion support for them, turning configuration issues=20
more complicated, there might be side-effects, etc.

Joao