Thanks for having a look at this, Cliff.
Both Dima and I left the default terminal to be the same as the built-in
Gnuplot default (that you get by not specifying one to gnuplot). On the Mac,
this defaults to "aqua"; on Fedora Linux it defaults to "X11cairo" (IIRC).
On Jan 25, 2012, at 10:27 PM, Clifford Sobchuk wrote:
> From your response, I take it you are using cygwin and not strawberry or
> activestate perl. The IPC methods, I think I saw them in the .pm file near
> the bottom. I was trying to figure out exactly what was being called. I saw
> that gnuplot itself was being called which does work (not with pipes unless
> they changed it to be consistent with *nix platforms - previously it had to
> call pgnuplot for any piped actions), but I didn't see where the terminal
> type was set (the default that is, I expect we can put any terminal that is
> supported by gnuplot). I guess that during the tests files it would call the
> X11 term type? Does this mean that if I installed Xming that it would
> magically work - or at least pass the tests?
>
> I can give that a try and I'll check the differences between the IPC of the
> Graphics::GnuPlotIF and PDL:Graphics::Gnuplot to see if there is anything
> that I can naively spot as important.
>
> I tried to build the .tar.gz file from the git and it fails during make.
>
> drzowie-PDL-Graphics-Gnuplot-cbcb72d>perl Makefile.PL
> Set up gcc environment - 4.5.2
> Checking if your kit is complete...
> Warning: the following files are missing in your kit:
> debian/source
> Please inform the author.
> Writing Makefile for PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot
> Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
>
> C:\Users\eclisob\Downloads\drzowie-PDL-Graphics-Gnuplot-cbcb72d\drzowie-PDL-Graphics-Gnuplot-cbcb72d>make
> process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, rem, ...) failed.
> make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.
> make: *** [blibdirs] Error 2
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig DeForest [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 9:15 PM
> To: Dima Kogan
> Cc: Craig DeForest; Clifford Sobchuk; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Perldl] PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot on Win32 Vista.
>
>
> On Jan 25, 2012, at 4:43 PM, Dima Kogan wrote:
>
>>> Clifford Sobchuk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I tried installing the PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot on top of 2.4.9 and it
>>> resulted in the following report from cpanm. Any pointers?
>>
>> This just means that it couldn't run the gnuplot executable. I haven't
>> made any effort to make it work on Windows, so that's why you are
>> seeing the error. There shouldn't be a lot involved, but somebody has to do
>> it.
>>
>> Also it is important to note that the code on CPAN is my latest
>> branch. Craig has done lots of work on this module, and you should use his
>> latest:
>>
>> https://github.com/drzowie/PDL-Graphics-Gnuplot
>>
>> I don't know if Windows support was something he touched, but it's worth a
>> try.
>> Craig, care to weigh in?
>
> Sure. I've been working down the parse tree for Gnuplot. The existing
> module works great for a wide variety of simple things. There is crude FITS
> support. It is possible to do everything that gnuplot can do (which is quite
> a lot), but edgier cases still require messing with the syntax a bit (e.g.
> "xrange" works as advertised [you pass in a list ref containing <min>,<max>],
> unless you set "xmdate" to plot time values on the X axis, in which case you
> have to manually pass in a string that contains double quotes -- but that
> will be fixed).
>
> As for Windows support, I find that the "x11" device works fine with the only
> Windows system I use. Someone else who knows (or cares) how to support the
> cra^H^H^Hstuff that comes out of Redmond can hack the 2-3 methods that do the
> actual IPC to the gnuplot process.
>
> Here's an example plot I made recently for a paper. It shows fields of view
> of several instruments on the STEREO-A spacecraft and locations of several
> CMEs that were tracked at the end of 2008. It was surprisingly easy to
> generate (and is just one frame in a movie).
>
> I'd like to get one or two more rounds of smartening finished up and a better
> test suite written, but I (and I think Dima) am planning to have a CPAN
> release of PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot buttoned up in time for folks to poke and
> prod it before 2.4.11 comes out (hopefully ~4-6 months after 2.4.10).
>
> Cheers,
> Craig
>
>
>
>
>
>
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