In terms of dependencies and size, Gaston is probably minimal; it depends on gnuplot only, which is a small binary and readily distributed on Linux, OS X and windows. It offers basic features only (but has 3-D plotting), but this may be an advantage for a default package. It is also well documented (at least, I like to think so :)
-- mb On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Tony Kelman <t...@kelman.net> wrote: > We can probably pick a default, and it'll probably be Gadfly, but last I > checked Gadfly's support for running outside of IJulia is still a bit > lacking. To distribute a working version of IJulia you have to get into the > business of redistributing an entire Python installation, which could be > quite a rabbit hole. > > > On Sunday, July 12, 2015 at 1:59:21 PM UTC-7, Cedric St-Jean wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sunday, July 12, 2015 at 4:47:42 PM UTC-4, Tony Kelman wrote: >>> >>> > The only thing I really would like to have >>> > included by default it plotting tools, because they are so essential >>> for a lot of things. >>> >>> I don't think you're going to find a single plotting tool that satisfies >>> everyone, unfortunately. Not everyone likes grammar-of-graphics style >>> plotting, or dependencies on Tk or IPython/Jupyter or OpenGL or a web >>> browser to have a usable plotting package. Once we figure out the right way >>> to bundle packages and make larger distribution versions of Julia we can >>> include a few different choices. >>> >> >> I'm a Julia beginner who is still using pyplot to avoid making a >> decision. Choice is overwhelming when starting out with a new language, >> having a basic distribution that includes sensible defaults (eg. >> Enthought's scipy distribution) will help a lot. >> >
