Re: [Plplot-devel] Status report on remaining issues to be addressed for theforthcoming 5.11.1 release (wxwidgets issues)

2015-06-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
rently using (which sounds like it should be quite efficient)? Or is there some small detail of your current IPC method that needs to be tweaked to substantially drop those wait times? Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Phys

Re: [Plplot-devel] Bug in notcrossed() function of plfill.c

2015-06-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
discovered. 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

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status report on remaining issues to be addressed for the forthcoming 5.11.1 release (wxwidgets issues)

2015-06-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
completely solve these efficiency regressions. 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 implementatio

Re: [Plplot-devel] Bug fix to plbuf.c

2015-06-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-06-22 14:34-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: > > >> On Jun 22, 2015, at 1:50 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> >>> On 2015-06-21 23:50-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: >>> >>> I fixed the compilation error on cairo.c and I am working on a fix to cairo >>> so

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status report on remaining issues to be addressed for the forthcoming 5.11.1 release (pkgIndex.tcl concatenation logic bug?)

2015-06-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ware@raven> make clean software@raven> time make -j4 plplot >& plplot.out real0m0.970s user0m0.684s sys 0m0.424s The first time you see such results (less than a second to rebuild the plplot library) you hardly believe them, but it is true, ccache is really that fast. Ala

Re: [Plplot-devel] Bug fix to plbuf.c

2015-06-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ng specific to override that default. 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 (fr

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status report on remaining issues to be addressed for the forthcoming 5.11.1 release (wxwidgets issues)

2015-06-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
for you to time any device other than wxwidgets on your various boxes for 5.11.0 and master tip.) Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations wi

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status report on remaining issues to be addressed for the forthcoming 5.11.1 release (pkgIndex.tcl concatenation logic bug?)

2015-06-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
st a source code change, but sometimes it makes a difference if there are build-system changes (as in this case). Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status report on remaining issues to be addressed for the forthcoming 5.11.1 release

2015-06-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-06-20 13:33+0100 Phil Rosenberg wrote: > Oh there is the fill issue that I reported previously too. Once you > have had a chance to consider if the change is okay let me know. Hi Phil: That is (buried) on my agenda already as >> On 19 June 2015 at 21:02, Alan W.

Re: [Plplot-devel] Bug fix to plbuf.c

2015-06-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ously needs work to deal properly with resizing events since, for example, there is the same lack of resizing capability as for xcairo. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.

Re: [Plplot-devel] Comprehensive testing on Cygwin with Tcl/Tk/Itcl/Itk

2015-06-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ish up this Cygwin testing effort by running the script again without that --do_test_interactive no option (although that last test will require some babysitting from you to click all the GUI's to get through all the interactive tests.) Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomic

[Plplot-devel] Status report on remaining issues to be addressed for the forthcoming 5.11.1 release

2015-06-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
retty sure I can get everything else on the above agenda into 5.11.1 especially with cooperation from everyone lurking on this list on doing comprehensive testing and sending the report tarballs that are automatically generated by that script to this list. Alan ______ Alan

Re: [Plplot-devel] Comprehensive testing on Cygwin with Tcl/Tk/Itcl/Itk

2015-06-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-06-17 12:51-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > After some further investigations of details in your report it turns > out the error you found was due to a build system inconsistency when > ENABLE_tk is forced to OFF. I will work on solving that inconsistency. Hi Arjen: Your c

[Plplot-devel] Improving the quality of our commit messages and commits

2015-06-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
future reference as well. 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 int

Re: [Plplot-devel] Comprehensive testing on Cygwin with Tcl/Tk/Itcl/Itk

2015-06-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
eriments I suggested. "nm" is a livesaver in these situations so it would be good for you to learn how to use that tool on Cygwin. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (a

Re: [Plplot-devel] Comprehensive testing on Cygwin with Tcl/Tk/Itcl/Itk and Ada

2015-06-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
plplot library for the nondynamic case to confirm that (or not), and we can take it from there. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations wit

Re: [Plplot-devel] A patch series to fix an off by 1 error when calling check_buffer_size()

2015-06-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ill sufficient time to test those bug fixes before our forthcoming release. 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-st

Re: [Plplot-devel] Comprehensive testing on Cygwin with Tcl/Tk/Itcl/Itk and Ada

2015-06-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Arjen: On 2015-06-09 09:24-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Could you also take this opportunity to update > <https://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/wiki/Setup_cygwin/>? That page > already has some information (last updated in 2013) concerning > packages to install, but it is

Re: [Plplot-devel] Tcl build error

2015-06-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
the pathname of the resulting concatenated file. So please try commit 73fd9a4 to see if that now fixes the issue. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Program

Re: [Plplot-devel] Bug in notcrossed() function of plfill.c

2015-06-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
am involved with at the moment. 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 inter

Re: [Plplot-devel] Bug fix to plbuf.c

2015-06-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ys are collaborating on making the fix. Anyhow, once I see a patch series for the two forms of wxwidgets from one or the other of you, I would be happy to test both those forms. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,

Re: [Plplot-devel] Bug in notcrossed() function of plfill.c

2015-06-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
osed to do, and I tried to explain it on my previous post which you quoted and which I quote again below. I suspect you may have just read my first comment below and then quit. :-) Alan > > -Original Message- > From: "Alan W. Irwin" > Sent: ‎15/‎06/‎2015 19:18 > To:

Re: [Plplot-devel] Bug in notcrossed() function of plfill.c

2015-06-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
By the way, I hope your presentation went well despite the distraction introduced by this PLplot bug you discovered at the last minute. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.ph

Re: [Plplot-devel] Tcl build error

2015-06-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
e taken a look at this, and I believe commit id 32c5cf8 will fix the "spaced" build-tree pathname issue you discovered, but I have only superficially tested this fix so please let me know if it solves the issue. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research aff

Re: [Plplot-devel] Bug fix to plbuf.c

2015-06-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Mac OS X devices, ideally you should develop and mature them now on private development branches so you will be prepared to merge them to master just after the release of 5.11.1 (and certainly within the first month after that date). Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical

Re: [Plplot-devel] Bug fix to plbuf.c

2015-06-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
lan __ 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); the Time Ephemeri

Re: [Plplot-devel] Tcl build error

2015-06-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
s. If there is some obvious part of that generated file that needs quotes around the pathname, please insert the corresponding escaped quotes into the concatanation logic in bindings/CMakeLists.txt, test that change, and if it works for you please push it. Alan __ Alan W. I

Re: [Plplot-devel] Bug fix to plbuf.c

2015-06-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ollected by scripts/comprehensive_test.sh should make reporting of tests and figuring out build-system issues from those reports _much_ easier. Which likely means this release will be tested on a lot more platforms than the last one and a significant amount of time will be required to deal w

Re: [Plplot-devel] Bug fix to plbuf.c

2015-06-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
n overview of the xwin device to see if it might help you to document the general design of interactive device drivers. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programmin

Re: [Plplot-devel] Driver behavior questions and wingdi preview

2015-06-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-06-11 12:20-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: > >> On Jun 11, 2015, at 11:42 AM, Alan W. Irwin >> wrote: >> >> On 2015-06-10 21:44-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: >> >>> [...]The driver does not support alpha blending or native gradient fills. >> I’m not s

[Plplot-devel] Jim's 0001-Fixes-to-correct-builds-on-WIN32.patch

2015-06-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
____ 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); the Time Ephemerides project (tim

Re: [Plplot-devel] Driver behavior questions and wingdi preview

2015-06-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
that API over the corresponding GDI+ API. Of course, if/when the GDI/GDI+/Uniscribe approach is implemented, it will need to use the GDI+ API to support alpha blending and native gradients for the driver, but I am fine with that from the overview perspective. Alan ______

Re: [Plplot-devel] Bug fix to plbuf.c

2015-06-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-06-10 19:58-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: >> On Jun 10, 2015, at 3:57 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> I am sufficiently concerned by your explanation of this fix above that >> I am now beginning to wonder a bit if it was necessary. Of course, I >> could be just missin

Re: [Plplot-devel] Bug fix to plbuf.c

2015-06-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-06-09 23:10-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: > >> On Jun 9, 2015, at 10:39 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> >> On 2015-06-09 18:18-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: >> >>> Attached is a patch series that corrects a NUL termination bug in >> the plot buffer that I d

Re: [Plplot-devel] Bug fix to plbuf.c

2015-06-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
, but I assumed you had done that already. 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 stella

[Plplot-devel] Styling of commits

2015-06-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
win. Furthermore, I assume those same requirements would be easy to meet on any version of MinGW, and also on Mac OS X. So there is a lot of choice for you here. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University

[Plplot-devel] Comprehensive testing on Cygwin with Tcl/Tk/Itcl/Itk and Ada

2015-06-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ny issue I cannot straightforwardly figure out, I will likely put Ada language support changes off indefinitely. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affili

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot and C++

2015-06-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Tk/Itcl/Itk changes (and possibly also the Ada changes if those prove to be easy for me) are completed. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliatio

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot and C++

2015-06-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
rk for you (and also Phil who is also having trouble getting X to work on modern Cygwin). If those instructions work for you could you please put them on our Wiki so all our Cygwin users can get access to X? Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation

Re: [Plplot-devel] The multiple keypress problem when using interactive drivers

2015-06-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
alternative to the Uniscribe and Direct2D alternatives that should also be available. > @Alan > > I was not able to uncrustify. I have not had time to set it up on my Windows > machine. Sorry. @Jim: No problem. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot and C++

2015-06-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
through to completion) it will probably take an hour, but it will be much shorter than that if, say, the fortran aspects of the test are not working for some reason. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot and C++

2015-06-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
issues and in particular the -np issue can be fixed. However, you and Phil can build the test_c_wxwidgets target by itself from the build tree on Cygwin to evaluate how fast a fairly wide subset of the examples will render with the wxwidgets device. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot and C++

2015-06-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-06-05 12:59-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > Summary: > > > The following components still need additional installation > changes by you in order to test them on Cygwin > > ENABLE_ada: OFF > ENABLE_lua: OFF > ENABLE_tcl:

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot and C++

2015-06-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ult -DPLD_wxwidgets value as ON again). I also assume finding wxwidgets on MSVC will work thanks to your previous patch to FindwxWidgets.cmake to make that so, but we may need to do more work for the case of MinGW without MSYS. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliat

Re: [Plplot-devel] wxPLViewer text size --URGENT

2015-06-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-06-05 14:40-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2015-06-04 23:06+0100 Phil Rosenberg wrote: > >> Hi Alan >> I have added some additional optimizations to the text rendering and >> sizing for wxWidgets driver. Everything is smooth on Windows. Let me >> know if you

Re: [Plplot-devel] wxPLViewer text size --URGENT

2015-06-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
you feel that wxwidgets-2.8 is too old to support any more because it requires unacceptable constraints on your further wxwidgets development). Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot and C++

2015-06-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-06-05 12:59-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > Remarks concerning II alone: > > > Ada. > > The result for II was > > -- WARNING: gnat library not found. Disabling ada bindings > > which is a package

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot and C++

2015-06-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
alled Cygwin platform that finally has all the PLplot prerequisites that have been packaged under Cygwin. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming af

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot and C++

2015-06-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
related software to a different location; setting CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH so that gnatlib can be found; and installing two further packages should (with luck) solve the 4 issues above. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astro

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot and C++

2015-06-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-06-01 10:48-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > To Phil and Arjen: > > Thanks to both of you for the useful information below which should > help me to sort out the C++ linking issue for the traditional build. The solution I came up with (commit ID e23628e) turned out to be quite ele

Re: [Plplot-devel] Patch series that cleans up warning and error messages

2015-06-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ould interfere with normal testing, then as release manager I would be happy to push those changes during this release cycle. But if no such consensus develops quickly, then I will probably want to put off pushing these changes until a later release cycle if at all. Alan ______

Re: [Plplot-devel] Release status: plmetafile.c and plbuf.c compiler warnings

2015-06-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-06-01 17:32-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: >>> On May 31, 2015, at 9:32 PM, Alan W. Irwin >>> wrote: >>> The remaining warnings are >>> >>> /home/software/plplot/HEAD/plplot.git/src/plmetafile.c: In function >>> ‘read_header’: >>&g

Re: [Plplot-devel] Minor patch to ignore Mac OS X autogenerated files

2015-06-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
mit id b121708). Thanks! 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 int

Re: [Plplot-devel] Example 3 text cropping

2015-06-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
e here will fix those resizing issues. And I presume a similar fix needs to be applied for the wincairo device on platforms with access to raw Windows graphics. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Vi

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot and C++

2015-06-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
for the visual studio > version you compiled on. Not that this makes any difference for > building and running on the same machine. > > On 1 June 2015 at 08:09, Arjen Markus wrote: >> Hi Alan, >> >> >> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: Ala

Re: [Plplot-devel] Code-browsing GUI for PLplot git repository and git feed no longer work

2015-06-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-05-31 10:58-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > I have reported this issue to SF (see > <https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/site-support/10445/>). > > My checks (comparing a fresh clone with my present clone) indicate our > git repository is still OK which was my principal con

Re: [Plplot-devel] Example 3 text cropping

2015-06-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
dev wxwidgets -geometry 200x150 I an barely make out any details, but it appears to me the text size is scaled well enough that it does not wander into an area where it will be clipped. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of P

Re: [Plplot-devel] Release status: plmetafile.c and plbuf.c compiler warnings

2015-05-31 Thread Alan W. Irwin
t.git/src/plmetafile.c:1117:14: note: ‘plm’ was declared here Would you please take responsibility for analyzing these and either fixing (if possibility exists for using uninitialized value) or else squelching by doing a dummy initialization with comment (if false alarm)? Alan ______

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot and C++

2015-05-31 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-05-27 14:50-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > [ F]or my latest build [on Linux I found] > > software@raven> grep CMAKE_CXX_IMPLICIT_LINK_ > CMakeFiles/3.0.2/CMakeCXXCompiler.cmake > set(CMAKE_CXX_IMPLICIT_LINK_LIBRARIES "stdc++;m;c") > set(CMAKE_CXX_IMPLICI

Re: [Plplot-devel] Release status: plmetafile.c and plbuf.c compiler warnings

2015-05-31 Thread Alan W. Irwin
same build test again. 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);

Re: [Plplot-devel] Release status: plmetafile.c and plbuf.c compiler warnings

2015-05-31 Thread Alan W. Irwin
9: note: ‘cmd’ was declared here You should be able to replicate this on your Linux box and probably also on your Cygwin platform. > On 12 March 2015 at 20:14, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> >> gcc is generating these warnings when building libplplot. Would you >> please

[Plplot-devel] Code-browsing GUI for PLplot git repository and git feed no longer work

2015-05-31 Thread Alan W. Irwin
e you should pay close attention to "git fetch" and "git log origin/master" results to figure out the commits done by others. If you want to follow the above ticket, click on the appropriate button at that URL. And once it is resolved I will say something more here. Alan

Re: [Plplot-devel] Next steps for comprehensive testing on Cygwin

2015-05-31 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-05-22 12:57- Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > > > >> -Original Message----- >> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] >> >> So to help you with that installation task I did some research, and here are >> the >

Re: [Plplot-devel] wxPLViewer text size

2015-05-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ill more than a fraction of a second, then I would carefully review the client-server model you are using for wxPLViewer and why your text size changes have made such a drastic reduction in speed. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Departme

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot 6 and git

2015-05-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-05-26 22:13+0100 Phil Rosenberg wrote: > On 24 May 2015 at 23:01, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> [...] I just skimmed an interesting paper called "Fighting >> regressions with git bisect" by Christian Couder which I highly >> recommend to others here. (You can

[Plplot-devel] PLplot and C++

2015-05-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-05-25 13:06-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Don't get me wrong, I would like this limitation to be resolved so > that our traditional build of the installed examples works as well as > the CMake build of those. When discussing this with Andrew I > mentioned one possibility f

[Plplot-devel] Working around the bug in the -np option for -dev wxwidgets

2015-05-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
r the wxwidgets device please give me a heads up so I can include tests of wxwidgets again in the test_interactive targets. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uv

Re: [Plplot-devel] A possible design of our new Fortran binding

2015-05-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
o me in git format-patch form. 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 (f

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLPlot 6 and C++

2015-05-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
to others if they want to make our Makefile+pkg-config approach as high quality as the CMake-based one for building our installed examples. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww

Re: [Plplot-devel] A possible design of our new Fortran binding

2015-05-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-05-25 09:33-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Or > you also have the option of rebasing so you end up effectively with > > master: ... A-B-C-R-S-T-U-V-W-X-Y-Z >\ > f95update: G-H-I > > where I have used dif

Re: [Plplot-devel] A possible design of our new Fortran binding

2015-05-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-05-25 12:38- Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > > > >> -Original Message----- >> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] >> >> Of course, if I am going to contribute to this development I do need git >> access to your >>

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot 6 and git

2015-05-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
s I stated in the details above), and subsequently (if needed) use that tag as the origin of a semi-permanent public plplot5 branch if we need to do further PLplot 5.x bug-fix releases. Obviously in this case the plplot5 branch would never be rebased or merged with the master branch since PLplot 5 wo

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot 6 and git

2015-05-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ate servers. But I am pretty sure Phil will agree with a variation of his idea (collaborate on a throwaway public topic branch devoted to PLplot 6 development) that I just proposed where it is implemented on the SF server with suitable warnings. Alan __ Alan W. Ir

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot 6 and git

2015-05-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
is pretty compelling despite the caveats. So I am actually leaning slightly toward (2) at the moment for really big topics like PLplot 6 development unless there is some git issue I forgot. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physi

[Plplot-devel] Improved fix for plInBuildTree on Windows

2015-05-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
of your Cygwin testing still more. 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 st

Re: [Plplot-devel] PDL_VERSION error

2015-05-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ild on a system with PDL installed, so I didn't see this > before. Commit 38ea064 should fix this, but please check and let me know whether or not that is the case. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, Universit

[Plplot-devel] PLplot 6 and git

2015-05-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
current rebase-only workflow (as described in README.developers) so I would like to continue with that indefinitely and develop major topics such as plplot6 always on rebased private branches using "git format-patch"/"git am". Comments? Alan __ Alan W. Irwin

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLPlot 6 and C++

2015-05-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
if you can get the other active core developers on-side with changing our core library to C++, then I certainly will not stand in the way and, in fact, if the consensus is yes, then I expect to immediately be taking an active part in this change via required changes that will be needed to the buil

Re: [Plplot-devel] Protecting plP_state calls by level checks

2015-05-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
y beyond my understanding of the PLplot code so I am going to leave it to you to figure out how to avoid the segfaults while still satisfying the need not to mess up renders from the buffer. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Departm

Re: [Plplot-devel] Protecting plP_state calls by level checks

2015-05-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
lingering from previous builds but I guess I was wrong. Hi Phil: No problem, and I am just glad you figured it out. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programmin

Re: [Plplot-devel] Using Window's raw API for shapes and text

2015-05-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
for any descriptions you gave of your device driver, if you have not done that already. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the Free

[Plplot-devel] PLplot build fails on Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.3

2015-05-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
> 4 errors > > bmake: stopped in /home/pbulk/build/local/plplot/work/plplot-5.11.1 > *** [all] Error code 2 > > bmake: stopped in /home/pbulk/build/local/plplot/work/plplot-5.11.1 > 1 error > > bmake: stopped in /home/pbulk/build/local/plplot/work/plplot-5.11.1 > ~~ &

Re: [Plplot-devel] [PATCH] OS X pkg-config.cmake error: string REGEX REPLACE needs 6 arguments

2015-05-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Lewis: On 2015-05-21 17:51-0500 J. Lewis Muir wrote: > On 5/18/15 5:01 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> So could you give the latest version of our git master branch >> (which will soon form the basis for the forthcoming 5.11.1 >> release) a try to see if that solves the

Re: [Plplot-devel] Protecting plP_state calls by level checks

2015-05-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
from an absolutely empty build directory and a fresh clone of the master branch? You, of course, also have to put the dll subdirectory of the build tree on your PATH to get the build to work. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Departm

Re: [Plplot-devel] Using Window's raw API for shapes and text

2015-05-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
etype with the above objections answered would certainly give a huge boost to the gd device driver (also dependent on plfreetype) back from its current course toward complete retirement. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of

Re: [Plplot-devel] Linking model review requested

2015-05-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
e are satisfied. (Note it is not as bad as it sounds because we don't have either java or ocaml bindings available in any case for a static build so we are only truly eliminating compiling and testing the Ada, D, and f95 examples for this corner case). Alan __

Re: [Plplot-devel] c++ wxWidget example compile issue

2015-05-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
12.). 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); the Time

[Plplot-devel] Next steps for comprehensive testing on Cygwin

2015-05-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
f my own I would like to finish up for the current release cycle. Therefore, these two requests from me to you should both be classified as "whenever convenient for you". Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronom

Re: [Plplot-devel] Spurious warnings on Cygwin should now be gone

2015-05-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-05-18 00:57-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2015-05-18 06:56- Arjen Markus wrote: > >> Hi Alan, >> >> >> >> With the latest version the [Cygwin] warnings are indeed gone: > > Hi Arjen: > > It was good to hear that issue (and other more s

Re: [Plplot-devel] A possible design of our new Fortran binding

2015-05-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
with just your present work and no further except possibly excluding the x00f.f90 change would allow us to develop this private topic from there. Of course, I am aware you have had some problems with using "git format-patch" in the past, but if those continue let me know here or

Re: [Plplot-devel] Results of the comprehensive test on Cygwin

2015-05-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-05-21 08:07- Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > > > >> -Original Message----- >> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] > >> >> The first error message for the case of the traditional build of the f95 >> examples when

Re: [Plplot-devel] Results of the comprehensive test on Cygwin

2015-05-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
se). So when you get a chance, please try a comprehensive test again to see if the above commit allows that test to finally run to completion for the Cygwin platform for the case when the traditional build is included in the test. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical

[Plplot-devel] Linking model review requested

2015-05-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
nking model I use will show I am right, but nevertheless that review would be much appreciated since it would help to put my mind at ease about this commit (which disables the relevant parts of the comprehensive test for the given combination of circumstances). Alan __ A

Re: [Plplot-devel] Question about Ada support

2015-05-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
which should help others here who need to distinguish between the gcc compiler used by Ada and by C. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations wi

Re: [Plplot-devel] Question about Ada support

2015-05-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ge support using trial and error methods using tests like I suggested above to evaluate whether the results were good enough for our needs. And stopped when that was finally the case. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and As

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fedora plplot patches

2015-05-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-05-18 17:41-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > [...]So really > the definitive test of that result is do the ocaml examples build and > run fine for you with that null string -ccopt option for the > traditional build of installed examples or does the OCaml compiler > choke on t

Re: [Plplot-devel] Incorrect pkg-config link flags with plplot 5.11.0

2015-05-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-05-18 17:04-0600 Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 05/17/2015 02:02 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> Hi Orion: >> >> In the last month or so you brought a number of linking issues for >> the traditional build system to my attention. I believe >> commit id = 6a5bad5

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fedora plplot patches

2015-05-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-05-18 16:53-0600 Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 05/18/2015 01:35 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...] >> On 2015-04-25 12:42-0600 Orion Poplawski wrote: >> >>> On 04/25/2015 11:05 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >>>> While we are at it, are there any other general iss

Re: [Plplot-devel] [PATCH] OS X pkg-config.cmake error: string REGEX REPLACE needs 6 arguments

2015-05-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
If so I will close the corresponding bug report that you just made at <http://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/bugs/163/>. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Progr

[Plplot-devel] Protecting plP_state calls by level checks

2015-05-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
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); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.

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