Alan W. Irwin writes: > So I think "the road to 6.0" is going to be a long process that will need > lots of planning, implementation, and testing work, but that effort should > be worthwhile if we end up with just the ideal API for 6.0 with the > non-ideal component of our API completely removed.
Besides discussion of API changes and handling thereof, another thing which I find represents a large part of the PLplot adoption experience, relates to the third party packages and libraries we work with. So, one thing I'd like to see in a PLplot 6.0, is updated support for modern versions of the things we have bindings and wrappers for. Most significant in my own mind, are Tcl/Tk 8.5, and Python 3.1. But with bindings/wrappers and drivers for so many other things, I could imagine there are probably other significant updates in some of those other components, that other people are also concerned about, and want to see our support for updated. Anyway, for Tcl/Tk 8.5 and Python 3.1, there are a variety of things that I can think of which would be reasonable expectations for people looking to combine PLplot with applications also using those modern versions of the script languages and toolkits. Build support is the most obvious. But I could see a bit of a makeover in some of the PLplot widgets, possibly some more smithing of the language interfaces, etc. In the case of Tcl/Tk and Python, these are things I expect to be working on myself over the coming weeks and months. But I would very much like to hear ideas from others relating to the possible deprecation of support for the older versions of Tcl/Tk and Python (and similarly for whatever other third party libs are seeing similar developmental changes). Maybe this is too abstract, let me try to give a specific example: If a new/improved set of Plplot Tcl/Tk widgets were to come along, which worked only with Tcl/Tk 8.5+, what would people expect to happen with the older stuff that works with Tcl/Tk 8.4-? If a new/improved set of PLplot Python widgets were to come along, which worked only with Python 3.1+ + Tcl/Tk 8.5+, what would people expect to happen with the older stuff that works with Python 2.6- and Tcl/Tk 8.4-? -- Geoff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
