Let us not forget that we have rather LESS programmers than we used to have
several years ago, so we should be very careful about taking on jobs that
are not absolutely necessary.
..David
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From: Starlink development
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Sent: 17/06/2004 20:29
Subject: Re: RAL GKS
> and it says that GKS is at version 1.40 whereas Starlink is shipping
> v1.37. How come Starlink haven't got the most recent copy?
It's not being supported. DLT is working on telescope control, and
Brian on Astrogrid with a little HDS on the side.
The aim was to move to native PGPLOT. Since KAPPA has this, there's
less demand for GKS support. Of course, many unsupported (again in
practice) packages still use GKS. I don't suppose any of these
GKS-graphic applications even realise they're not plotting with the
bleeding-edge GKS.
> Does anyone know this Julian Gallop who has his name down as GKS
support?
Yes. However, I've not seen him in years. DLT is the man to ask.
According to the CLRC direcotry Julian still works at RAL. Tim, why
don't you mail Julian yourself <[log in to unmask]> to answer your
questions.
Is there not the danger that GKS v1.40 will break something in a package
we're leaving for the users to self-support in the CVS era? Don't we
want working applications rather than being the maintainers of RAL-GKS?
It would help to know if the changes look innocuous.
> Have RAL really relinquished control of RAL-GKS to Starlink?
Pass. It would seem not if we're three increments behind.
Malcolm
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