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

2009-04-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-04-22 09:38+0200 Werner Smekal wrote: > Same here. On Windows it's much easier to install the gd library then the > cairo/pango library. I still us the gd driver and would like to do so in the > future. So as Alan already wrote, keep it in the CBS but do not enable it by > default. > O

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

2009-04-22 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Arjen, On 22.04.2009, at 09:40, Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Werner, > > ah! Thanks for reminding me - my search keywords were something like: > "cairo windows library". So I need to install GTK+ to get convenient > access to the cairo libraries ... hm. You don't need to install the whole gtk lib

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

2009-04-22 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Werner, ah! Thanks for reminding me - my search keywords were something like: "cairo windows library". So I need to install GTK+ to get convenient access to the cairo libraries ... hm. Regards, Arjen On 2009-04-22 09:35, Werner Smekal wrote: > Hi Arjen, > > On 22.04.2009, at 09:08, Arjen Ma

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

2009-04-22 Thread Werner Smekal
On 22.04.2009, at 09:01, Andrew Ross wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:09:45PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: >> 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 ha

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

2009-04-22 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Arjen, On 22.04.2009, at 09:08, Arjen Markus wrote: > On 2009-04-22 09:01, Andrew Ross wrote: > >> >> I'm with Geoffrey and Maurice on the gd driver. I still use it on >> several >> (old and new) systems. Yes, I could switch to cairo / qt on some of >> those >> systems, but not all and the

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

2009-04-22 Thread Arjen Markus
On 2009-04-22 09:01, Andrew Ross wrote: > > I'm with Geoffrey and Maurice on the gd driver. I still use it on several > (old and new) systems. Yes, I could switch to cairo / qt on some of those > systems, but not all and there is an inertia to stick with the driver you > know. Plus the gd has

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

2009-04-22 Thread Andrew Ross
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:09:45PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > 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 coup

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