+1 for that! I'll be willing to help where needed.
As for pgplot/gnuplot in the early days of Prima
we tried to make a Prima-based graphic driver for one
of them, -- I can't remember details, but I do remember that
it was surprisingly easy to implement.
/dk
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:37:55AM -0400, chm wrote:
> David and all-
>
> I think it is time to resolve the PDL graphics
> problem, "this missing link" by getting a basic,
> standard capability for PDL.
>
> I propose the standard display graphics for
> PDL be based on the Prima graphics toolkit
> by Karasik et. al. and the current code for
> PDL::Graphics::Prima by David Mertens.
>
> A start would be to review the common usage
> of PGPLOT, PLplot, and Gnuplot to come up with
> a Top 10 of use cases to implement. They
> should be *very* simple to use and have smart
> defaults so the common case versions of the
> Top 10 can be done in 1-line or less. :-)
>
> Motivation/justification:
>
> * More beginning PDL users thanks to the
> PDL Book and the increasing buildability
> and usability of PDL on all platforms.
> It makes it more glaring that we don't
> have a good, common, default graphics.
>
> * Alien::XXX development has not matured
> enough to allow easy use of PLplot and
> PGPLOT and it is arguable that we want
> the base display graphics to be readily
> available from perl/CPAN which Prima
> is.
>
> * The use of Prima will provide an easy
> to use, default GUI environment for more
> sophisticated and user friendly PDL
> applications.
>
> * If we could get that base graphics up
> and running for the next point release
> (which will include the new NiceSlice
> filter engine and 64bit indexing) we
> would have a compelling platform for
> future growth.
>
> One downside, I am not prepared to push
> this effort through as I'm pretty busy
> working to make time for the final 64bit
> index development and the new NiceSlice
> engine support (the missing piece is the
> ability to use NiceSlice in an eval such
> as the pdl2 or perldl shells.
>
> I'm hoping that David might be willing
> to spearhead this development and maybe
> hold off on the Core diving for a bit.
>
> At any rate, I think the time is right
> for this to happen and the sooner the
> better.
>
> Thoughts, comments, "volunteers"?
>
> --Chris
--
Sincerely,
Dmitry Karasik
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