Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot 6.0

2009-11-28 Thread Hazen Babcock
Andrew Ross wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:26:39AM -0600, Geoffrey Furnish wrote: >> Alan W. Irwin writes: >> > So I think "the road to 6.0" is going to be a long process that will need >> > lots of planning, implementation, and testing work, but that effort should >> > be worthwhile if we

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot 6.0

2009-11-23 Thread Andrew Ross
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:26:39AM -0600, Geoffrey Furnish wrote: > Alan W. Irwin writes: > > So I think "the road to 6.0" is going to be a long process that will need > > lots of planning, implementation, and testing work, but that effort should > > be worthwhile if we end up with just the idea

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot 6.0

2009-11-23 Thread Andrew Ross
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 08:40:40PM +0100, Werner Smekal wrote: > Hi Geoffrey, > > > > > If a new/improved set of Plplot Tcl/Tk widgets were to come along, > > which > > worked only with Tcl/Tk 8.5+, what would people expect to happen > > with the > > older stuff that works with Tcl/Tk 8.4-? >

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot 6.0

2009-11-23 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Geoffrey, > > If a new/improved set of Plplot Tcl/Tk widgets were to come along, > which > worked only with Tcl/Tk 8.5+, what would people expect to happen > with the > older stuff that works with Tcl/Tk 8.4-? > > If a new/improved set of PLplot Python widgets were to come along, > which

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot 6.0

2009-11-23 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > So I think "the road to 6.0" is going to be a long process that will need > lots of planning, implementation, and testing work, but that effort should > be worthwhile if we end up with just the ideal API for 6.0 with the > non-ideal component of our API completely remove

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot 6.0

2009-11-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-11-19 09:37+0100 Werner Smekal wrote: > Hi list, > > I actually don't care about this number issues (it's ok for me if we > go to PLplot 5.146), but wouldn't it be time to step to 6.0 any time > soon? This time we could really branch PLplot and e.g. remove all > drivers/code which are(is u

[Plplot-devel] PLplot 6.0

2009-11-19 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi list, I actually don't care about this number issues (it's ok for me if we go to PLplot 5.146), but wouldn't it be time to step to 6.0 any time soon? This time we could really branch PLplot and e.g. remove all drivers/code which are(is unmaintained. If someone wants to use these drivers