Andrew Ross wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:26:39AM -0600, Geoffrey Furnish wrote: >> 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. >> > > A further thing for the wish list is to look over the drivers and see if there > are any we can no longer properly support. Alan has already done a lot of this > recently, but this might be a time for a code purge, as opposed to just > disabling by default.
I would add return codes for every function in the API and moving away from the use of plabort() and plexit(). Also, I think that plget and plset are likely going to be a little baroque for everyday use in languages like C & Fortran. Compare: PLAttribute pen_attr; pen_attr.attributeType = PL_INT; pen_attr.intValue = 2; plset(PL_PENWIDTH, pen_attr); To: plwid(2); The goal of plget & plset is more or less complete coverage of the settable attributes of the current plot stream in form that is easily ported to all of our language bindings. I think we'll want to keep many of the functions currently in the API as "shortcuts". If we decide that a function is not used much we could remove it from the API & retain its abilities with plget/plset. If we decide that a stream attribute is accessed a lot via plget/plset then we could add a "shortcut" function to the API. -Hazen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
