Re: [Plplot-devel] Is it time to retire the gd and gcw device drivers?

2009-04-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-04-21 23:24-0500 Maurice LeBrun wrote: > These are excellent points. I too work for a ginormous corporation for which > RHEL4 represents state-of-the-art tech. And have similar doubts that will > change for a couple years at least. So the legacy png driver will remain very > useful to m

Re: [Plplot-devel] Is it time to retire the gd and gcw device drivers?

2009-04-21 Thread Maurice LeBrun
On Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 23:05:34 (-0500) Geoffrey Furnish writes: > ... > My own experience might be summarized as "life in a ginormous corporation". > As Linux pushes into large enterprises, companies/corporations wind up > spinning up ginormous (read bureacratic/slow) IT organizations w

Re: [Plplot-devel] Is it time to retire the gd and gcw device drivers?

2009-04-21 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Hi Alan, Alan W. Irwin writes: > I would like to permanently disable the gd and gcw device drivers as well > as the gnome2 and pygcw bindings associated with the gcw device driver for > this forthcoming release. > > Here is my justification for this proposed change. > [...] > * gd and gcw

[Plplot-devel] Is it time to retire the gd and gcw device drivers?

2009-04-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
I would like to permanently disable the gd and gcw device drivers as well as the gnome2 and pygcw bindings associated with the gcw device driver for this forthcoming release. Here is my justification for this proposed change. * gd and gcw are unmaintained. * Unicode text for the gd and gcw devic

Re: [Plplot-devel] plplot version 5.9.3?

2009-04-21 Thread Hazen Babcock
Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > I still have more work on leap seconds and corresponding extensions to > example 29 to complete before the release, but it should all be pretty > straightforward so it shouldn't take me too much longer. That's all I have > planned before this release, and as far as I know