> On May 13, 2015, at 8:43 PM, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote: > >> 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 >
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