Re: [Plplot-devel] Your development plans for this release cycle

2017-02-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
To Phil and Pedro: I was just reminded of an important wxwidgets component issue I forgot to mention. That issue (see ) is the wxwidgets component of our software is behind both our qt and cairo components which use the gradient API of Qt and the pango/c

[Plplot-devel] Important new evidence concerning the remaining Linux inefficiency issues for wxwidgets

2017-02-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Phil: The wxwidgets IPC (inter process communication) improvements I have just started working on are suddenly less urgent because some new evidence (see below) indicates the cause of the Linux inefficiency issue has nothing to do with IPC! To remind you of what that (remaining Linux inefficie

Re: [Plplot-devel] Your development plans for this release cycle

2017-02-01 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Alan, Apologies for the late answer. The further strengthening of the Cygwin and MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platforms (the latter in its dual guises) is a goal worthwhile to pursue. A similar action could be taken for bare Windows and in conjunction (with perhaps a higher priority, a more extensive t