Re: [Plplot-devel] State of the Union

[Joao C. <jc...@fe...>]

On Thursday 07 February 2002 6:48 pm, Geoffrey Furnish wrote:
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What a speach!

You spoke in threading the redisplay process, but not in threading the=20
interative drivers, which is a must giving the interpreted languages we=20
support.

For the rest... in the 5 to 10 years you admit that it would take us to h=
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the job done, things will be much different then. What atracts me in plpl=
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is that it a simple, manageable, and yet capable scientific plotting libr=
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that supports several languages, output devices and OSs.

Some of the things you spoke can motivate me, but resources are scarce. P=
IPs=20
must have a priority associated. The non-existing "Bugs" item should have=
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higher priority, followed nearly by "Core", "Ports" and "Documentation", =
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"PLplot Applications" should have the lower one. That's my view. Of cours=
e a=20
sub-priority should be assigned to each sub-task of each major task.

Joao