Re: [Bug-gnubg] Match statistics graph

[Joern Thyssen]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 09:51:41AM +0000, Jonathan Kinsey wrote
> I agree with the emails about avoiding making gnubg do everything.
> 
> It would be nice to add some export of data functions for expert users.  On 
> the other hand it's good to add generally useful things which everyone will 
> use.  Not sure the graph falls into the catagory though :-)

Yes, I think it's fine that we supply a single graph.

But just two weeks from now you'll have 10 users requesting 10 different
new graphs. We might as well anticipate this and make an export of the
raw data, so we can say to the user: "you can export the data and make
your own graph". The user will reply: "but this particular graph is of
interest for many users -- please implement it", to which we *must*
reply: "yes, but we only supply this single graph". Otherwise we'll end
up with a bloated gnubg that includes an email client for sending
positions and matches to other users (a gnubg specific corollary of
Zawinski's law).


We supply one graph that gives a good overview, but if the users wants a
logarithmic scale or pink colours he'll have to export the raw data and do
the graphs himself.

> Anyway I've tidied the code up a bit and checked it in.  It needs
> opengl 
> (will only be included if USE_BOARD3D defined), but should work fine on 
> anyone's machine.

Does it require exactly the same libraries as the 3D boards or will it
work with less?

Jørn

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