[Plplot-devel] python interface builds and python examples install and run on AT

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

These python configuration additions to AT were pretty massive so it took a
very long day's work. Also, I made one false start with the setup.py method
which I later replaced with the more cross-platform friendly automake method
of building our two python extension modules. Finally in the examples/python
directory I now have a three-line configurable plplot_python_start.py
module. The installed version is put in examples/python and is imported into
pythondemos.py and prova.py so they automatically find the plplot python
modules wherever they have been installed.

Anyhow, with the changes I just committed, all aspects of the python
interface and examples now work for AT on Linux.

Tomorrow (and perhaps the next day as well) I will tackle all the tcl/tk
issues.

Joao, it would be some help to me if you would do the automake conversion
for octave. All you have to do is follow the simple rules in the various
bindings/*/Makefile.am and examples/*/Makefile.am. I have found that the
best references are really "info automake", "info autoconf", and "info
libtools" because searching through those to understand what was done before
is quite easy compared to searching through web pages. If you are interested
in getting involved now, please let me know privately so we don't duplicate
effort.

Alan

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Dr. Alan W. Irwin
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055,
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P6
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