On 2015-05-13 18:27-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: > >> On May 13, 2015, at 6:17 PM, Aaron Hexamer <hexa...@comcast.net> wrote: >> >> Alan, >> >> I'm a little confused by the statement about copying code from Jim's driver >> to wingcc. I just assumed that wingcc was named as such because maybe >> PLplot was first ported to windows with support only for the gcc compiler? >> I.e. is there really anything specific to gcc about wingcc anymore. I >> recall using it with MSVC when I first got started with PLplot. If Jim's >> driver did everything that wingcc does, but without plfreetype, would there >> be a need for both? >> >> Aaron. >> >
> I think the smart thing to do is to have one Windows driver. I can't recall any differences that could not be handled without an #ifdef block. Hi Jim: Any way you decide to implement your driver (i.e., separately or as part of wingcc) is fine with me. @Aaron: Your question about the wingcc name got me curious so I looked at git log results for drivers/wingcc.c, and indeed the initial commit (back in 2004 by Andrew Roach was the originator of the plfreetype approach but who has since retired from PLplot development) was for "users of GCC windows compilers such as mingw". But clearly the wingcc name is now a misnomer. Of course, you don't want to break backwards compatibility on this name now unless there is a really good reason, but one possible good reason is if someone could think up a really compelling name for this device driver that we all immediately like. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
