[Plplot-devel] Java consistency effort concluded for now

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

Thanks, Joao, for adding the visual interest to example 11 (and example 8
before that)!  I have just finished bringing the java examples into
consistency with these changes.

This concludes the Java consistency effort (at least until the next change
in the C examples).  Most java examples agree exactly with their C
counterpart.  The worst difference is a long-standing discrepancy in the
last page of example 9 where the potential plot contours are slightly but
visibly different between C and Java no matter what I try.  I believe there
is some programming mistake here (perhaps in the C example), but the
discrepancies are hard to track down. The two other example discrepancies
that show up with diff are quite minor and don't seem to correspond to
anything visible.

I may have time to also bring the tcl and python examples into consistency
with the C examples before the release.  The point of such effort is to make
sure our wrapper libraries are doing exactly what we think, and to make sure
our API is complete (at least to the extent of being able to reproduce the C
examples).

If somebody is looking for a straightforward way to help out with the
release, it would be nice to have consistent fortran and C++ examples as
well.  I am sure you will run into incomplete API in both cases, but it would
be great to get that fixed up.

Alan

email: ir...@be...
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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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