On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 09:45:28AM -0800, Christopher Barker wrote:
> Gael Varoquaux wrote:
> > I am so happy to hear you say this. With Traits in MPL, it would be
> > possible to build an interactive plotting application based around
> > envisage, using other envisage plugins ....
> I'm really not trying to be a troll, but tell me again what MPL has that
> Chaco doesn't? It seems there is a bit of "we want MPL to be more like
> Chaco", but Chaco is open source, and at least nominally back-end
> independent, so why is there this duplicate effort?
You are not at all a troll. I think this is a very important question to
ask one self. I have thought about it a lot.
Here is my answer:
* pylab: I love the pylab API. I want (and I am not the only one) to
be able to construct a plot with a pylab script, or on the command
line. I would like to be able to modify it interactively
afterwards. Chaco's pylab equivalent is orders of magnitude below
the real pylab.
* Output quality. Things like laTeX support, pdf and eps output, or
just an constant attention to small details like the tick size,
etc... give matplotlib an excellent output quality. I got used to
it and I want to use it for all my publications, and actually I am
quite happy having it for my day to day work to.
I would love to see MPL and Chaco merge, to be able to get the best of
both worlds, but I don't see it happening any soon, as the two projects
have different goals.
My 2 cents,
Gaël
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