Re: [Plplot-devel] C++ update effort now completed

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

On 2003-09-20 15:33-0500 Maurice LeBrun wrote:

> Alan W. Irwin writes:
>  > On 2003-09-19 08:26+0200 Arjen Markus wrote:
>  > > I might be interested in the Fortran interface. Can you tell me what
>  > > needs to be done?
>  >
>  > Several things (from highest to lowest priority and from easy to hard)
>  > ...
>
> Missed a big one:
>    * split off fortran bindings to a separate library (libplplotf77), similar
>    to what is done with c++ (libplplotcxx).  This will allow vanilla plplot
>    installs to include the f77 bindings w/o inconveniencing C/C++ users (who
>    otherwise need to link with the f77 support libs).
>
> I know I expressed interest in doing that last one myself but I've given
> up hope of getting to it any time soon.

That was done early in Rafael's autotools project, and I just continued to
support that when I finished up that effort. Thanks to autotools there
should be nothing in libplplot anymore referring to the fortran interface.
Instead, the fortran stuff is all collected in libplplotf77.

Alan
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