Re: [Plplot-devel] Ruby bindings

2010-03-03 Thread Andrew Ross
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:51:28PM -0800, David MacMahon wrote: > Hi, Andrew, > > Thanks for your comments. Ideally I'd like somehow to support both a > Ruby-centric installation (i.e the .gem file) as well as non-Ruby- > centric installations (e.g. apt/yum/port/whatever). Alan's analysis >

Re: [Plplot-devel] Ruby bindings

2010-02-28 Thread David MacMahon
Hi, Andrew, Thanks for your comments. Ideally I'd like somehow to support both a Ruby-centric installation (i.e the .gem file) as well as non-Ruby- centric installations (e.g. apt/yum/port/whatever). Alan's analysis (showing that most people install plplot binaries via a package manager)

Re: [Plplot-devel] Ruby bindings

2010-02-28 Thread Andrew Ross
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:55:32PM -0800, David MacMahon wrote: > > On Feb 27, 2010, at 14:47 , Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > > On 2010-02-26 14:09-0800 David MacMahon wrote: > > > > The above suggestion pertains regardless of whether you are going > > to donate > > your ruby bindings to PLplot or n

Re: [Plplot-devel] Ruby bindings

2010-02-27 Thread David MacMahon
On Feb 27, 2010, at 14:47 , Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2010-02-26 14:09-0800 David MacMahon wrote: > >> As you all know by now, I'm working on Ruby bindings to PLplot. I am >> (still) almost ready for a first release. There's always "a few more >> things"! :-) > > You may have done this already

[Plplot-devel] Ruby bindings

2010-02-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi David: I changed the subject line for obvious reasons. On 2010-02-26 14:09-0800 David MacMahon wrote: > As you all know by now, I'm working on Ruby bindings to PLplot. I am > (still) almost ready for a first release. There's always "a few more > things"! :-) You may have done this already

Re: [Plplot-devel] Ruby bindings

2010-01-06 Thread David MacMahon
Hi, Andrew, On Jan 6, 2010, at 0:01 , Andrew Ross wrote: > We'd of course welcome any contributions for a ruby binding to plplot. I'll be happy to contribute it. It's coming along. > How are you generating it? I'd strongly recommend looking at swig > (http://www.swig.org) for automatically gen

[Plplot-devel] Ruby bindings

2010-01-06 Thread Andrew Ross
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 02:45:11PM -0800, David MacMahon wrote: > I'm working on creating Ruby bindings to PLplot, much like the Ruby > bindings to PGPLOT (http://pgplot.rubyforge.org/). I've gotten a > fair amount of the API done and the first seven or so examples > "ported". I'll be happy