Re: [Plplot-devel] Re: PerlDL: simple PLPLOT interface for PDL

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

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Karl Glazebrook wrote:

>
> No Win32 or Os X? Perhaps next.c might do for the latter (yes I know you
> can run X-windows).
>
> My point is it is a bit more unix-centric than pgplot
>
> Karl

I would like to respond to this comment since it was CCed to the PLplot
developer's list, and I believe the "it" here refers to PLplot capabilities.

Up to a month ago I would have agreed with the unix-centric assessment of
PLplot since the win32 directory hadn't been worked on for a number of
years. But that is all changed now.  One of our developers got interested
and has just delivered a complete upgrade of plplot/sys/win32/msdev/.  He
claims that plplot now works fine on win98 (and possibly even win95), winNT,
and win2K.  If you have further interest in this (or the other upgraded
capabilities of PLplot) please do an anonymous checkout from the latest CVS
at sf.net/project/plplot ==> "CVS".  Or wait for PLplot version 5.1.0 which
completely supersedes version 5.0.4 and which should be released (check
sf.net/project/plplot ==> "Files") in a few more days.

With regard to PLplot on Mac OS X, there is no port at this time.  However,
my understanding (although I have never tried it myself) is ports to Mac OS
X of Unix Apps are pretty straightforward.  I have not heard anything, but
perhaps one of our developers or users will contribute that effort in the
near future.

Alan

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