Hi Chris: I know that PLplot should build on Windows, but I've never
tried it.
--Doug
On Tue, 5 Feb 2013, Chris Marshall wrote:
That is good to know. I'm glad you've been
keeping up the low level bindings. The sticking
point for using PLplot was getting the
"build everywhere PDL does" part done.
I have never been able to build PLplot out
of the box on cygwin and don't know whether
there is a oob recipe for the PDL platforms.
If you've been keeping up, maybe you have
a better idea.
Originally, I had hoped this would be the
perfect place for an Alien::PLplot module.
However, as mentioned, there was no
champion with the free time to take up the
challenge.
Maybe it would make sense to revisit the
problems since now we have the Alien::Base
work by Joel to build on. Attempting to build
the PLplot library on cygwin is on my list
again with the apparent demise of the PGPLOT
xwin driver on the current cygwin release.
--Chris
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Doug Hunt <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi David: I know I've been slack on keeping the 'high level' version of
PDL::Graphics::PLplot up to date, but I have been keeping up with PLplot
development at the lower level. That means that all C level PLplot commands
are available in perl and that the perl bindings pass all PLplot tests.
PLplot is better-than-average open source project with many dedicated
long-time contributors. It seems to be well maintained.
Regards,
Doug
[email protected]
Software Engineer
UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611
On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, David Mertens wrote:
I believe PLplot hits all of these check-items. Unfortunately, it has no
great champion. I stopped using it because I feared I
would have to write too much C to bend it to my will. Not that I've had a
dearth of C in my own plotting library work... :)
David
On Feb 4, 2013 4:22 AM, "Karl Glazebrook" <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi everyone
Surely there must be a modern C-callable (and implemented! No java
or python please) plotting library which
supports objects, transparency, GUI embedding,PDF etc., looks
attractive, is cross-platform and is efficient for
large datasets?
Karl
On 31/01/2013, at 7:12 PM, Timothy Pickering
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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
>
> i'm going to be an instigator again and point out that pgplot,
plplot, and gnuplot are all ~20 year old pieces of
legacy software. at least gnuplot is actively maintained and
evolving, but pgplot has hardly been touched in ~10
years. i've tried plplot a few times, but always ended up throwing
up my hands after a short while. maintaining
dependencies with packages like these will always be a headache and
will hold back adoption and evolution of PDL.
note that i haven't looking into prima at all, however.
>
> tying back into the previous discussion about notebook-type
interfaces like what ipython has i'd like to point
out the existence of http://d3js.org/. ipython notebooks are great,
but using matplotlib graphics within a browser
is rather limiting. integrating something like D3 opens up a lot
more flexibility and capability. a browser-based
PDL shell that used D3 for plotting could be pretty kick butt....
>
> tim
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