Re: [Plplot-devel] Developing and testing a new driver for GNUstep

2008-09-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Maurizio: On 2008-09-06 23:14+0200 Maurizio Tomasi (maurizio.tomasi) wrote: > Thank you for your answer Alan, but please consider these two points: > 1. GNUstep is different than any other GUI library. It stores headers and libraries in non-standard directories. In addition, there are many li

Re: [Plplot-devel] Developing and testing a new driver for GNUstep

2008-09-06 Thread Maurizio Tomasi (maurizio.tomasi)
> A fully-loaded PLplot (including all the languages, drivers, and examples) > builds in > only a few minutes, and if you drop the languages, examples, and most > drivers) that > build time reduces to a few seconds.  So you are saving very little by trying > to build > against a binary version o

Re: [Plplot-devel] Developing and testing a new driver for GNUstep

2008-09-06 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Maurizio, >>> Hi to everybody, >>> >>> A few days ago I posted a question in the plplot "Help" discussion >>> forum about a the development of a new driver for GNUstep >>> (http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=2185650&forum_id=8607). >>> In the last days I investigated a bit mor

Re: [Plplot-devel] Developing and testing a new driver for GNUstep

2008-09-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-09-06 11:05+0200 Maurizio Tomasi (maurizio.tomasi) wrote: > Hazen Babcock wrote: >> >> On Sep 5, 2008, at 2:38 AM, Maurizio Tomasi wrote: >> >>> Hi to everybody, >>> >>>A few days ago I posted a question in the plplot "Help" discussion >>> forum about a the development of a new driver

Re: [Plplot-devel] time

2008-09-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Steve: I agree with almost everything you have said. For example, I very much agree with your general idea of keeping everything as simple as possible. The one area where I think we need more discussion is the time scales we use for our continuous and broken-down times. On 2008-09-06 15:26+0

Re: [Plplot-devel] Attempt to generalize Windows visibility to the gcc-4.x case

2008-09-06 Thread Andrew Ross
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 05:56:02PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > Revision 8753 makes infrastructure available to > play with gcc-4.x visibility following what was done for the Windows compiler > cases and following the ideas in http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Visibility. > > The idea here is any symbol marke

Re: [Plplot-devel] time

2008-09-06 Thread Steve Schwartz
Hello Alan, I think we're converging here. Certainly dispensing with leap seconds removes nearly all the complications. All the possible time systems (e.g., GPS, TAI, NASA CDF Epoch) differ only by a constant offset and, as you point out, if the user wanted to pretend that GPS was actually UTC (w

Re: [Plplot-devel] Developing and testing a new driver for GNUstep

2008-09-06 Thread Maurizio Tomasi (maurizio.tomasi)
Hazen Babcock wrote: > > On Sep 5, 2008, at 2:38 AM, Maurizio Tomasi wrote: > >> Hi to everybody, >> >>A few days ago I posted a question in the plplot "Help" discussion >> forum about a the development of a new driver for GNUstep >> (http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=2185650&f