Hi all, Based on the past few days of posts, I'd like to open up a thorny issue:
Do we have a plotting package that installs smoothly across all three major platforms? I've been playing with python and matplotlib for a couple of months now, and although the OO interface is a royal pain, at least I know I can send a script to students/collaborators and it will just *work* for them. I've seen that PLplot is throwing up errors for some people, and now we have Gnuplot grumbling as well. PGPLOT is still difficult to install and not interactive-friendly.... If we want more PDL adopters, we should pick a plotting system and put all our energies in making that work flawlessly for a couple of years, so that interested people don't get discouraged. I also have a selfish reason - if we choose something other than PGPLOT, it means a rewrite of the PDL Book, and I don't want to make the investment of time if we suddenly decide that 'oops, $PLOTTING_SYSTEM isn't working anymore/new shiny thing is the way to go'. I'd be happy to get any plotting package working for the SciPDL Mac binary working, if we get a general consensus here. Matt -- Matthew Kenworthy / Assistant Professor / Leiden Observatory Niels Bohrweg 2 (#463) / P.O. Box 9513 / 2300 RA Leiden / NL
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