Re: [Plplot-devel] Splitting off libpltcl and greatly simplifying library linking options

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

On Thursday 25 July 2002 09:34, Vince Darley wrote:
|  > |  As far as I know, no driver depends on anything in other
|  > | drivers so that should not be an issue.
|
|  This is untrue of the 'tk' driver.  While I am sure it is possible
| to remove any link-time dependencies through use of appropriate
| stubs, dispatch tables etc, actually using the tk driver uses the
| 'plframe' widget which in turn *requires* the xwin driver to
| operate.  Therefore it is meaningless to talk about the 'tk' driver
| unless the 'xwin' driver is available...

Yes. And this fully justifies what you say in another mail:

|> already have a tk driver and a xwin driver. As the tkwin driver main=20
|> purpose is to be cross platform capable, couldn't it be called tkx?=20
|or xtk? or tkall? The directory name in the bindings directory is=20
|already called tk-x-plat...
|
| I don't like anything like 'tkx' because that sounds like it is 'tk
| on X windows' which it is explicitly *not* (that is what the old 'tk'=20
| driver is).  If anything we should rename 'tk' to 'tkx' and take=20
| 'tk' for the new driver *grin*.

I agree, but historical considerations... if/when the tkwin driver=20
becomes a standalone driver, the old tk driver could disappear, but=20
I'm sure that many people would be against this...

|  (at least that's how I understand it).
|
|  In this respect the new 'tkwin' driver is better -- it just depends
| on external things (availability of tcl/tk).
|
|  -- Vince
|
|  <http://www.santafe.edu/~vince>
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