Re: moving toward a 3.0 release

[Bill Denney]

Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
> On 9/27/06, Bill Denney <address@hidden> wrote:
> > One of the major difficulties I had is that I don't know gnuplot well,
> > and I therefore had difficulty trying to make gnuplot work with the
> > frontend.  Without a good backend, it's tough to test the frontend.  The
> > other problem is that with the speed of the interpreter, it takes ~30
> > second to create first figure.
> Does it have to be a gnuplot? -- Do not get me wrong I do think that
> gnuplot is a fine stand-alone program. But in a situation where we
> want to emulate matlab behavior i may not be the best choice.
> I believe even John once said that if he had to start all over
> again he is not sure that his choice for a graphical end would
> be gnuplot. Since this graphics handle thing is a new thing perhaps
> we could think of a different backend?

It doesn't have to be gnuplot at all.  I admit that I've not used the 
other options much (octplot and octaviz), and I was honestly hoping that 
someone would write the backend to go with me writing the front end.  
All that is really required is the ability to draw lines, arbitrary 
polygons, and write text (with arbitrary rotations).  There are some 
other features that would be very nice, but that is all that is required 
of the backend.

Bill