s2plot-python extension

[t.r.marsh]

Dear s2plot developers,

I have recently downloaded & installed s2plot 3.2.1 and the python extension and have been getting going quite well with it. Thanks for a great piece of work. As a long-time pgplot user I really appreciate the api you have come up with and it was easy to get going with all the examples. I have a fair bit of experience with python and would be interested in helping with some issues I have found in the s2plot-python extension which I think is probably lagging the latest release, if there is an avenue to do so. Ones I have found to are: (a) incorrect path in the setup.py script which causes it to fall over immediately, (b) no equivalents for several functions, such as. s2funuva, which presumably post-date the python extension, and (c) failure to work with the PRC / PDF stuff that one should get with shift-P (a linking issue I suspect, but this is just a guess at present).

Is there a way to contribute code? I use git & github quite a bit, but you probably have your own preferences,

Regards,

Tom Marsh & s2plot newbie.

[David Barnes]

Hi Tom,

thanks for the really useful feedback.

As far as a mechanism to contribute code, S2PLOT is for the time being "frozen" at the open source version 3.2.1. Michail Vidiassov is working on restructuring the build to conform with cmake and make build and installation more standard.

But right now no one has taken "ownership' of the python module. If you wish to get the latest version and update it to match 3.2.1 of S2PLOT proper, that work and contribution will be gratefully received!

 - David.

[t.r.marsh]

Dear David,

I would be happy to take s2plot-python on, until someone more competent comes along. I propose the following:

1) I will start from the current s2plot-python distribution

2) Put it on my github account (trmrsh) as s2plot-python (publically available) with a README about where it has come from etc.

3) Start making alterations to it.

git allows one to backtrack changes easily and to see what has been changed. git & github make it relatively easy for people to work
on their own versions of the code, and merge their edits as and when the wish.

If you are OK with the above, I will get going,

Cheers,

Tom

[David Barnes]

I am very ok with this Tom. Sounds good. And we appreciate the input very much. Let us know the github address and we will post it on the S2PLOT page as a new location to get the Python module.

regards - David.

[Thomas Marsh]

Hi David,

its

https://github.com/trmrsh/s2plot-python

cheers,

Tom

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[Chris Fluke]

Hi Tom,

I've now updated the S2PLOT web-pages to point to your github version of the new Python wrappers.

Thanks again for your work on this!

Regards

Chris

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