RE: [Plplot-devel] My example consistency work is done except for java

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

Alan,

Thank you very much.  This was a very substantial undertaking, and I
really appreciate your sticktuitiveness which brought this to such an
important conclusion.

Alan W. Irwin writes:
 > I just got rid of the last major discrepancies to be found between the
 > examples for the C, tcl, and python (and yorick) front ends for examples
 > 1-18, excluding 14 and 17.  I will do the same for java as soon as the
 > appropriate additions to javabind.c have been made by Geoffrey.  I encourage
 > others to make the examples similarly consistent for Octave and fortran.
 > Java and those two front ends are the top consistency priority now, but when
 > the C++ and perl examples are completed, I suggest every effort should be
 > made to produce consistent example results there as well.
 > 
 > Consistent postscript results for every front end for each of the examples
 > are boring (;-)), but such results are an excellent consistency check that
 > the plplot API has been implemented properly for every front end and also
 > an excellent teaching tool if somebody is trying to expand their knowledge
 > of plplot to more than one front end.
 > 
 > If you change any of these examples for any of the front ends (i.e.,
 > something as simple as a colour or line width change) I would appreciate you
 > doing it for all front ends to maintain the consistency that I have now
 > achieved.