Re: [Plplot-devel] tcl/tk driver build results on Solaris : NeedsHelp

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

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Vince Darley wrote:

> Looks like you are getting closer -- all this static/dynamic driver stuff
> is very unix-specific and not something I know anything about, except that
> it seems extraordinarily complex.

Yep, the old paradigm of throwing the fortran, c++, java, and tcl/tk
front-ends, and *all* drivers (and the kitchen sink and the bathtub) into
libplplot was much easier to get right since there were few linking issues
to worry about.  But we started abandoning that paradigm in 5.1.0 with the
introduction of dynamic drivers, and we completely separated the front-ends
from the libplot library for 5.2.0.  I believe the lean/mean results of the
new paradigm (for example being able to dynamically load the tcl/tk plplot
interface from wish and tclsh using "package require") are worth the
additional trouble we have had to take with the linking. I would never want
to go back to the 5.0.x style of linking.

Alan
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Programming affiliations with the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and
Analysis (www.cccma.bc.ec.gc.ca) and the PLplot scientific plotting software
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