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Le Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:24:13 +0200, Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> a =
 =

=C3=A9crit:
> I don't see those words in COPYING.LIB version 2 as distributed with
> plplot (and I thought you don't hold with Wikipedia???!).
Please, what means =E2=80=9Cto get hold with=E2=80=9D in that context ?

> However, the plplot bindings have no generics, so may be OK. But I thi=
nk
> that for statically-linked proprietary executables using plplot you
> would have to supply at least object code for your proprietary
> application so that the user could relink with a newer version of
> plplot.
>
> Sounds fraught with difficulty.
I read it twice, and understood you are are required to allow reverse  =

engineering if ever you statically link to an LGPL stuff. So to feel at =
 =

rest, the best is to use dynamic linking only. On Windows, that's easy, =
 =

just put a DLL into the directory where the binary application reside  =

(application's directory is the first place where Windows application  =

loader will look to solve DLL dependencies). May seems more difficult on=
  =

Unicies without installing a library system wide, except that may not be=
  =

so much difficult: for Linux and derivatives, use a tiny utility which i=
s  =

named =E2=80=9Cpatchelf=E2=80=9D, to write an rpath entry in your ELF ex=
ecutable. I did  =

not check if relative paths are OK here of only absolute paths make sens=
e,  =

but at least, this allow you to dynamically link an application to an  =

exact library, without system wide installation (if relative paths are n=
ot  =

OK for an rpath, then do it from an installer). For MacOS, I can't tell,=
 I  =

don't own and don't have access to any.

This PlPlot seems interesting (support a wide range of output among the =
 =

most interesting ones), will have a look at it a later time.

-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D  [Ep=
igrams on  =

Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale University]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [Idem]
Java: Write once, Never revisit