[Plplot-devel] New java configuration completed and tested and other configuration news

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

I have now configured our java interface with the new configuration approach.
The new wrapper library is called libplplotjava.so.  This completes the
move of all interface wrapper code from libplplot to special wrapper libraries
which are built or not depending on the configuration options.

I have done some limited testing of a few java examples to make sure they
are installed okay and can be built properly with the instructions in
$prefix/lib/java/plplot/examples/README.javademos.

Note, Java is still experimental (principally because of the limited API
that we have at this time) so this configuration effort was not release
critical at all, but I decided to do it anyway while the required
new configuration for our other interfaces was fresh in my mind.

The only other interface not configured with the new approach at this time
is perl, but I am going to leave that strictly to Rafael because the current
version of the perl interface to PLplot is incomplete, and Rafael has
tentative plans to change it over to PDL in any case.  All drivers
(configured both dynamically and statically) are also now configured with
the new scheme. So there should be no further major additions to the current
configuration scheme until substantially after the release (and only then if
Rafael finishes with perl or somebody donates a new interface or driver).

The only other configuration news is that Vince has recently tried the new
configuration scheme on the cygwin platform.  It got all the way through the
compilation stage, but failed at the link stage because I had forgotten an
autoconf macro that is important for cygwin linking according to the
autobook. So we are now on the second iteration there.

We still have an important need for testing of the new configuration scheme
on solaris with tcl/tk, but reports on any other Unix platforms (e.g., MAC
OS X, HPUX, IRIX, AIX, additional OSF1, and additional Linux) would be most
appreciated as well.

We still also have an important need to get the -dev tk problem solved.
(tcl/tk cannot seem to find the scripts in $prefix/lib/plplot-5.1.0/tcl under
these circumstances although there are no problems in other circumstances.)
Is there any plplot tcl guru here who is willing to take this on?

Alan

email: ir...@be...
phone: 250-727-2902	FAX: 250-721-7715
snail-mail:
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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