RE: [Plplot-devel] Remove the deprecated sections in drivers.h and plcore.h?

[Geoffrey F. <fu...@ga...>]

This is the only message I can promise to generate before Monday.

The issue to which you refer, has a recent origin in the sense that
the "authoritative source in cf/configure.in" only appeared recently,
in the timeframe of the dyndrv work.  Before that, plcore.h and
drivers.h is where the stuff was authoritatively stored.

I don't myself view this as a particularly significant issue for a
release, since /users/ of the library can be oblivious to such
things.  Functionality matters for a release, style is of secondary
importance. 

Clearly we want this cleaned up.  I left it in (the header files) as a
record, since we have to keep refering back to it from time to time.
Maybe the transition is mostly complete by now, I don't know.  But for
sure, there needs to be a clear, and documented procedure for adding a
driver, which covers all the points.  If such exists, then I'm for
eliminating all the junk code.  But if not, then lets don't prune the
code before the production of suitable documentation.

I haven't reviewed the documentation lately, so do not actually know
where we stand on that.

I'll /try/ to read email this weekend in case anyone follows up to this,
but can't promise to respond before Monday.

Alan W. Irwin writes:
 > This is mostly directed to Geoffrey.
 > 
 > When I was trying to understand the cgm driver a while back, I noticed the
 > huge
 > 
 > #if 0
 > 
 > #endif
 > 
 > blocks in include/drivers.h and include/plcore.h.
 > 
 > Any objection to me just completely removing these code blocks?  In the latter
 > case (at least) some of the drivers are missing so I got the device number
 > wrong for cgm the first time I tried it.  The definitive source of device
 > numbers is actually cf/configure.in so to have it also (sorta) in plcore.h
 > is not good.
 > 
 > Geoffrey, if this is a no-brainer, I would appreciate an immediate response
 > so I can get on with things.  If you need more time to think about this, I
 > will try to remember not to take any action on this until late tomorrow.
 > 
 > Alan
 > 
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