Re: [Plplot-devel] New way of getting device info from dyndrivers

[Rafael L. <lab...@ps...>]

* Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> [2003-02-04 15:11]:

> Are you using "dlopen" in the generic sense here?  The actual call should
> be to lt_dlopenext, and you have to be careful of the argument (follow
> exactly what I did with drvnam and drvspec so the file name comes out
> exactly the same to get it to work cross-platform).

Of course, I used the libltdl interface (lt_dl* functions).  In particular,
the modules are open with lt_dlopenext.

> IIRC next.c is completely unmaintained and kept in CVS only as an
> encouragment for somebody, someday, to get it going again.

Okay.  This is something that will be absent of the 5.2.1 tarball, thnaks to
"make dist".

> plbuf.c is not a   driver  in the traditional sense.  I believe it is in the
> wrong directory and should be put in src instead.  It's code is put
> directly into the libplplot library (see src/Makefile.am).

Why are we waiting to do the move?  The only drawback that I see is that we
will loose the commit history if we move the file, since braindead CVS does
not know how to move files in the repository tree.

-- 
Rafael