On 2011-01-08 11:33+0100 José Luis García Pallero wrote: > Hello, > Is there a date planned for the launch of the 5.9.8 version of PLplot?
Hi José: We usually decide release dates about a month in advance. At this point I can say there will be no release of 5.9.8 for (quite) a while yet. There are still a lot of things we need to sort out for this release cycle such as finalizing the plcolorbar API, propagating plcolorbar (once that is finalized) and pllegend to all our language bindings and examples, determining the length of the rendered string using the qt device drivers, etc., (The rendered string length helps pllegend to determine the correct size of the legend automatically without the user having to do hand-adjustments of the legend size for each device to avoid text slopping over the edge of the legend.) > What is the status of the plcolorbar() function? It is usable yet? It is definitely usable and produces good-looking results. Try the last few pages of example 33 with -dev xcairo in any of C, Python, OCaml, or Octave to evaluate the current plcolorbar status for yourself. In my view that plcolorbar API is not yet complete, and I have made some suggestions to Hez about possibilities for improvement. All cutting-edge users of PLplot who have an interest in colorbars are encouraged to do that as well. But thanks to Hez's on-going efforts plcolorbar is definitely getting there and certainly usable now if you are willing to keep changing argument lists as we continue to change the API until we finalize it during this release cycle. 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); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
