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

[Karl G. <kg...@ph...>]

Very interesting. If you have a nice win32 driver that would be
an advantage.

Xwindows based drivers would work fine on OS X - pgplot does this for
example, it would be nice to have something native though.

Karl

"Alan W. Irwin" wrote:
> 
> 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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