On Jan 22, 2012, at 10:27 PM, Craig DeForest wrote: > Just had a first skim through the full book, thanks Chris and everybody for > putting this together. It is starting to shape up nicely, and I notice that > I still seem to owe some text. > > Aside from the numerous little fiddly things that I will patch up and hack > through git, I wonder if we really want to include the PGPLOT chapter in > here? I now count at least three packages (Plplot, Gnuplot, and Prima) that > have stronger support, in the sense of having any support. All three > alternatives seem to produce prettier output, although I haven't seen a > hardcopy demo yet from Prima. And, of course, everyone's probably tired of > hearing me kvetch about the PGPLOT license and the difficulty of supporting > it on modern hardware (let alone improving it). I sincerely hope that some > other package is elevated to primer status before the book sees real paper > and binding....
Er, that didn't quite come out right... "prime status", not "primer status" -- i.e. rather than a face-off between PGPLOT and PLPlot (and presumably Prima and Gnuplot) with equal chapters in the primer, I would like to see *one* plotting package placed as the default, with smaller pointer sections to other ones. It is not particularly important which one it is, but for new users we should have a recommended/default one. _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
