Re: [Plplot-devel] time

2009-02-18 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Alan, I will take care of it tonight. The test I have in mind is: - Check if a program can be built using both setenv() and unsetenv() - If not, then fall back on putenv() as in the patch I assume that these functions come in pairs, so that it won't be necessary to test them separately. Firs

[Plplot-devel] [ plplot-Bugs-2614228 ] Default PLplot library names should not end in "d"

2009-02-18 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #2614228, was opened at 2009-02-18 23:36 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=102915&aid=2614228&group_id=2915 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of

Re: [Plplot-devel] [Patch] msvc installation problem

2009-02-18 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Alan, >> >> The purpose is to provide the dirent functionality which is >> provided by glibc (or similar) so available for gcc (and also >> mingw) for Visual C++, which doesn't have this. plcore.c needs that >> to browse through a directory to search for available dynamic >> drivers whi

Re: [Plplot-devel] [Patch] msvc installation problem

2009-02-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-02-18 18:36+0100 Werner Smekal wrote: > Hi Alan, > >> For those (like me) who do not understand Windows that well, what is the >> purpose of dirent_msvc.h? I assume it is automatically generated, but does >> that automatic generation only occur in the build-tree include directory or >> do

Re: [Plplot-devel] time

2009-02-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-02-18 14:11- trc wrote: > Hi, > > > Arjen Markus wrote: > >> I have found the same problem with setenv() and unsetenv() on my >> venerable platform (Windows XP, 32 bits, with MSVC 6.0). I will create >> a workaround using putenv(), because right now building PLplot stops >> on the QSAS

Re: [Plplot-devel] [Patch] msvc installation problem

2009-02-18 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Alan, > For those (like me) who do not understand Windows that well, what is > the > purpose of dirent_msvc.h? I assume it is automatically generated, > but does > that automatic generation only occur in the build-tree include > directory or > do we have to worry about installation of au

Re: [Plplot-devel] [Patch] msvc installation problem

2009-02-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-02-18 10:36+0100 Werner Smekal wrote: > Hi Mark, > > thanks for the patch. Commited to svn. Hi Werner: For those (like me) who do not understand Windows that well, what is the purpose of dirent_msvc.h? I assume it is automatically generated, but does that automatic generation only occu

Re: [Plplot-devel] time

2009-02-18 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Terrence, with this patch in hand, I can concentrate on adding a test to the CMake files. Thanks, Arjen On 2009-02-18 15:11, trc wrote: > Hi, > > > Arjen Markus wrote: > >> I have found the same problem with setenv() and unsetenv() on my >> venerable platform (Windows XP, 32 bits, with M

Re: [Plplot-devel] time

2009-02-18 Thread trc
Hi, Arjen Markus wrote: > I have found the same problem with setenv() and unsetenv() on my > venerable platform (Windows XP, 32 bits, with MSVC 6.0). I will create > a workaround using putenv(), because right now building PLplot stops > on the QSAS test program. > In case you haven't created th

Re: [Plplot-devel] Google Summer of Code

2009-02-18 Thread Andrew Ross
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 01:21:33AM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: > On 2009-02-17 22:24-0500 Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Werner Smekal > > wrote: > >> should we apply for Google summer of Code? > >> > >> http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ > >> > >> what we need are go

Re: [Plplot-devel] [Patch] msvc installation problem

2009-02-18 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Mark, thanks for the patch. Commited to svn. Best Regards, Werner Smekal On 18.02.2009, at 09:49, Mark de Wever wrote: > Hi, > > When I installed plplot (svn trunk) with msvc 2008 I couldn't use > plplot due > to a missing header for msvc. The attached patch fixes the problem. > > Regards

Re: [Plplot-devel] Google Summer of Code

2009-02-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-02-17 22:24-0500 Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Werner Smekal > wrote: >> should we apply for Google summer of Code? >> >> http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ >> >> what we need are good ideas, mentors and students who are willing to >> write code. >> >> Just an

[Plplot-devel] [Patch] msvc installation problem

2009-02-18 Thread Mark de Wever
Hi, When I installed plplot (svn trunk) with msvc 2008 I couldn't use plplot due to a missing header for msvc. The attached patch fixes the problem. Regards, Mark de Wever msvc_cmake.patch Description: Binary data -- Op

Re: [Plplot-devel] time

2009-02-18 Thread Arjen Markus
Hello Terrence, I do not think it is possible to set an environment variable to an empty string on Windows. This amounts to undefining it. I have found the same problem with setenv() and unsetenv() on my venerable platform (Windows XP, 32 bits, with MSVC 6.0). I will create a workaround using put

[Plplot-devel] First pass at a public API for libqsastime completed

2009-02-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
As of revision 9546, I have completed the first pass at a new, more powerful public API for libqsastime. This (new) public API is documented in README.qsastime_API and qsastime.h and largely consists of powerful wrappers for the internal helper functions which are well-tested by qsastime_test and