Alan W. Irwin writes: > Geoffrey, your assumption is incorrect. As I have made clear from the > first (and also in a recent post to this list), autotools will be > deprecated (since nobody has stepped forward to support it any more) but > available (including configure and plplot_libtool) in the tarball to ease > the transition to our CBS. > > That said, since you and Maurice appear to be PLplot developers who intend > to continue to use autotools for a while,
I did not (mean to?) say anything like that. What I said was, to reduce the barrier to adoption, the CBS cutover should include a "configure" script which takes the same options as the old one, but which runs cmake as it's final act. And a functional plplot-config. > I am going to rely on you to test > our development releases to make sure that no autotools-related problems > inadvertently creep in. I don't intendt to maintain the autotools system personally. You may remember, that a condition for me to agree for PLplot to convert to autotools in the first place, was that someone else would have to support it. I have no personal issues with its deprecation, and am looking forward to a faster-building and less complicated future with cmake. That is no reason to torpedo users' infrastructure for incorporating PLplot into their host code. > * The transition from our ABS to our CBS is actually not that difficult. I > would be extremely surprised if it took a moderately experienced PLplot > developer (i.e., one who has used our downloads before) more than a day > (assuming they follow the steps what we suggest in the PLplot wiki). Those > with more experience with PLplot should take substantially less than a day. A ****day****! GASP! Oh my gosh. Then forget the installed base. Deprecation of ABS and cutover to CBS should include a "5 minute plan" for adoption of the new release. No PLplot release in history has carried more than about a 5 minute adoption hit. Even the cutover to autotools met that criteria. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
