Le dimanche 14 mars 2010 à 12:56 +0000, Kai-Martin Knaak a écrit : > IMHO, there are already very mature open source data plotters out there. > Think gnuplot, or grace. What is the rationale in rolling your own? > In the introduction of the manual, there is some rationale. To sum it up, each data plotter has its own strengths and weakness, but none do gather everything mentioned on the geda plotting improvement page. For example, although gnuplot can do math, AFAIK there is no cursors, and no update through DBus. A year and a half ago, I tried to work on gwave, but there was a dependency problem on guile-gnome and I did not find info gwave2. Then I took the decision for go for my own, taking the geda plotting improvement page as specifications. I designed the oscopy framework to be easily extendable, i.e. adding data import/export filters (Readers/Writers), Graphs, Cursors... I plan to use it also to view results exported by electronic instruments like scopes etc, also to support smith charts, etc...
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