[SciPy-dev] PyGist

[eric jones]

Hey Travis,

I just tried xplt out in the new CVS on Win XP, and it worked great for
a single plot.  If I close the plot window and try to plot something
again, it doesn't bring up a new plot.  When I then tried xplt.figure(),
it seg-faulted.

Any ideas?

eric

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: scipy-dev-admin at scipy.net [mailto:scipy-dev-admin at scipy.net] On
> Behalf Of Travis Oliphant
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 4:57 PM
> To: scipy-dev at scipy.org
> Subject: [SciPy-dev] PyGist
> 
> 
> 
> I have recently discovered the PyGist has undergone some changes while
> we've been using it in SciPy.
> 
> Part of these changes have led it to be available on Windows!!!!
> 
> Given that to compile SciPy on Windows we need the same tools required
> to compile and use PyGist on Windows, I am very willing to make the
> modifications to xplt necessary to get it to compile and be useful to
> the windows user.
> 
> This will provide a fast and very capable plotting package that while
> missing a couple of the bells and whistles of the eventually delivered
> chaco package, will allow users to produce publication quality plots
> immediately under current SciPy.
> 
> I think this is very important for the further dissemination of SciPy.
> 
> Some may get concerned that we will spend too many resources making
xplt
> workable to only through it away in the end.   I think this will not
> happen because PyGist is so fast and easy to use.
> 
> I fear that we are losing potential users because we are not
supporting
> a consistent and very useable (if not perfect) plotting package for
> SciPy.  Because PyGist now works on all platforms and it is very full
> featured there is no reason not to provide it in all binaries of
SciPy.
> 
> -Travis O.
> 
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