Hi Andrew: On 2011-10-27 09:38+0100 Andrew Ross wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:58:52PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: >> As promised, I have now (revision 12001) implemented x00c.c and made >> the necessary changes to incorporate this example into our build and >> test systems. >> >> I deliberately kept it extremely simple for the reasons that were >> discussed earlier in this thread. For example, the default colour >> scheme is used, and I only demonstrated a line plot with no symbols. >> >> Please try (with -DBUILD_TEST=ON) >> >> make x00c >> examples/c/x00c -dev whatever >> >> to review what this example looks like. Of course, also please review >> examples/c/x00c.c for overall understandability since this example is >> likely to be used in a PLplot tutorial. >> >> Within the overall constraint that we want to keep this example as >> simple as possible, let me know if you have any suggestions to >> change the plotted result or the understandability of the code. >> >> I hope this review period can be fairly short (a day or so) since any >> individual >> review should only take a few minutes for such simple code and results. >> >> Once the review period is completed, this example should be propagated >> to other languages. > > Alan, > > The example looks fine in that it is pretty much as simple as you can make > it. Good. Thanks for that review. > > I think more important (and this is Steve's point) is to have a really > simple example of a CMakeList.txt file to build the project to help > developers write their own. Example x00c.c just addresses one of Steve's points which was that we needed an absolutely dead-simple example (propagated to all languages) to help get newbies started plotting with PLplot in the language of their choice. I agree another good point that Steve made (i.e., we need a simple example of a CMake-based method of building one PLplot example against an installed version of PLplot) has not been addressed yet. It is a pretty straightforward task since all you have to do is copy the existing CMake-based build system for the installed examples and reduce it to bare essentials (e.g., only C, one example [probably x00c.c], and no tests). I renew my call for a volunteer to implement that since it is an excellent way to understand our existing CMake-based build and test system for the installed examples, and it would probably be months before I would have the spare time to do this project myself. 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); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Cisco Self-Assessment and learn about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
