From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,db1852ec54f81742 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!m5g2000prh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Jerry Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Cairo graphics library Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:26:22 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <7f1d3bfd-ffe1-4eae-9cae-3f696bd7b142@k18g2000prh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 97.117.194.38 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1313191978 29281 127.0.0.1 (12 Aug 2011 23:32:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:32:58 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m5g2000prh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=97.117.194.38; posting-account=x5rpZwoAAABMN2XPwcebPWPkebpwQNJG User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HLUARECNK X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4,gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:21559 Date: 2011-08-12T16:26:22-07:00 List-Id: On Aug 11, 9:42=A0pm, Ada novice wrote: > On Aug 12, 12:27=A0am, Jerry wrote: > > > Check out PLplot which has Ada bindings and a number of output > > options.http://plplot.sourceforge.net/ > > Note that the Ada bindings have Ada-specific additions that make > > PLplot super-easy to use for many common situations. See the Ada > > section of the documentation:http://plplot.sourceforge.net/docbook-manu= al/plplot-html-5.9.8/ada.html > > Thanks but I have never been successful in making PLplot to work on > Windows. The installation is too complicated for Windows. Question(s) > that I asked on the PLplot forum did not get proper response. Perhaps > in some future, the author will make the PLplot installation without > any hassle like any other program should be. > > I will follow the evolution of PLplot though as it is powerful and its > manual seems very comprehensive. > > Cheers > YC Agreed. Seems like I (we?) have had this conversation before. PLplot is, from this Mac user's perspective, a nightmare to install. (And I'm one of the developers!) I think this is probably a main reason that limits PLplot. I suspect that the PLplot official answer is that it has to be this way because it is supported on a vast array of different systems and thus requires cmake and compiling from source in all cases. Although I'm on the development team, my only function is working with the Ada bindings--I don't understand most of what the others do. Like you, I think that, at least on the major supported systems, I should be able to download a single thing and run an installer and be done, even if the installer has to download more stuff. Jerry