On 2009-04-21 23:24-0500 Maurice LeBrun wrote: > These are excellent points. I too work for a ginormous corporation for which > RHEL4 represents state-of-the-art tech. And have similar doubts that will > change for a couple years at least. So the legacy png driver will remain very > useful to me & my team for some time to come.
Now that my attention has been drawn to the issue, Geoffrey's "enterprise edition" point and your support of it are well taken. Therefore, I think our best course is to deprecate the gd device driver in the release announcement for the reasons given and also turn it off by default. That still gives the user who has no access to modern GTK/pango/cairo or qt as in said RHEL4 environment but who still wants to build modern PLplot, the option to turn the png, jpeg, or even gif devices knowing full well their limitations. Is there any justification for similarly deprecating the gcw device driver (which pretty much has similar dependencies to the cairo device driver) or should I go ahead with permanently disabling it? Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
