README.carma

NOTE:   this is not an official PGPLOT code repo, but there are forces to make an official one.


This version of PGPLOT has a number of small patches we needed for
MIRIAD (a BIMA product, now run as CARMA) and WIP. Eventually
these patches will be included in the official Caltech product.
Until then, feel free to use this version, but be aware there is
no official support for them.

We have kept our version of PGPLOT parallel to the Caltech as much
as possible, at last check version 5.2.2 (26-feb-2001).

Also note there is a cloned version of PGPLOT available within Starlink,
the ATNF/MIRIAD may also keep some subtle differences in their RCS
tree.  There is also a PGPLOT clone in the 'giz' package. On for example
Ubuntu you might find this is your default pgplot.
See  http://giza.sourceforge.net

CASA uses 5.3.1, with some extra routines. There is a newer version via TJP
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/npgplot/downloads/pgplot530.tar.gz
but that's 5.3.0  [now temporarily unavailable]


We keep this version of PGPLOT under GIT in https://github.com/astroumd/pgplot.


- Peter Teuben


The following changes were made:
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- a number of un-documented patches (to be documented as I sift
  through the CVS logs)

- various sys_*/ versions and changes to compilers
  for:
      linux intel compiler
      mac/darwin

- a simple pgplot.install script is available within the
  WIP (master version in NEMO/src/scripts) distribution

- the ps driver does not add  EPSF-3.0 to the first line, in order
  to not overplot multi-page prints (via CUPS e.g.).

- Peter Williams (pkwill@astro.berkeley.edu) added autotools support,
  he also distributes this from his own webpage as pgplot-remix; see
     http://www.newton.cx/~peter/software/pgplot-remix-5.2.2.0.tar.gz
  (check version numbers, they may change obviously)
  The CVS based CARMA distribution of this remix *ought* to be the
  same, but during the development (summer 2007) there may be some
  lag in the CVS version.

The following changes would be nice:
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- A default PGPLOT_DIR (currently /usr/local/pgplot) be changed
  to whereever PGPLOT is installed during installation.