Tim, have you guys "rebranded" PGPLOT under a Free license? If so, we could probably make a case that Starlink PGPLOT is Free (although Caltech PGPLOT is not). PGPLOT is ugly inside, but what isn't? My main sticking point to supporting it has been licensing.
On Oct 28, 2009, at 7:35 PM, Tim Jenness wrote: > > JAC ship a PGPLOT that we support. It includes the patches for > Tk::Pgplot and I keep meaning to add the RGBI stuff from Craig. > > http://starlink.jach.hawaii.edu/git/?p=starlink.git;a=tree;f=thirdparty/caltech/pgplot;h=5996a2dc1a65aacd08cc1bee1dc3f550a0cf5556;hb=HEAD > > I also keep meaning to split it off from the main starlink tree and > have it as a standalone git repository. > > Tim > > On Oct 28, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Chris Marshall wrote: > >> Craig DeForest wrote: >>> This has to do with which PGPLOT module you have loaded -- Karl >>> kindly >>> put it into one version (.20, I think) but I believe he backed it >>> out >>> when TJP was completely unresponsive and RGB images were not >>> integrated >>> into the pgplot mainstream. >> >> No hits from: >> >> grep -i rgb PGPLOT-2.19/* PGPLOT-2.20/* >> >> so I guess I'm out of luck. >> >>> I suppose we could patch Karl's module again, but I would, frankly, >>> rather see support for something GPL'ed (or equivalent). The Caltech >>> license for PGPLOT is not Free, so (for example) it is hard to get >>> support for it in the various Linix distros, and the -cd patches >>> cannot >>> be distributed together with PGPLOT itself. >> >> That was the origin of my hope to move PLplot to "most favoured 2D" >> status since PGPLOT did not have RGB support. Then a number of >> replies >> about how they liked PGPLOT output better than PLplot made me decide >> to try to get RGB working again. Maybe the folks who like PGPLOT >> don't >> need RGB support or already have it and are grandfathered in... :-) >> >>> I haven't checked TJP's website in a few months, so it's possible >>> that >>> something has changed -- but I doubt it. >> >> None that I've seen, either. Thanks for the response. >> >> --Chris >> >>> >>> On Oct 28, 2009, at 6:46 PM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I've build the pgplot5.2 library with the pgplot-5.2.2-cd3 >>>> patch but when I run demo cartography I still get grayscale >>>> maps. This is the test sequence in perldl, any ideas what >>>> I'm doing wrong here: >>>> >>>> perldl> use PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT::Window >>>> >>>> perldl> $im = sequence(24,16) >>>> >>>> perldl> $im3 = $im(:,:,*3) >>>> >>>> perldl> ?vars >>>> PDL variables in package main:: >>>> >>>> Name Type Dimension Flow State Mem >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> $im Double D [24,16] P 3.00Kb >>>> $im3 Double D [24,16,3] -C 0.00Kb >>>> >>>> perldl> $win = pgwin() >>>> Graphics device/type (? to see list, default /NULL): /xw >>>> >>>> perldl> $win->rgbi($im3) >>>> PGPLOT rgbi called, but RGB support is not present. Using grayscale >>>> instead. >>>> Displaying 24 x 16 image from 0 to 1149, using 84 colors (16-99)... >>>> >>>> Suggestions appreciated. >>>> >>>> Thanks in advance, >>>> Chris >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Perldl mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > > -- > Tim Jenness > Joint Astronomy Centre > > > > _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
