From graphics-request at octave dot org Mon Nov 29 12:12:20 2004 Subject: Re: Oplot From: Rafael Laboissiere To: Ole Jacob Hagen , Shai Ayal Cc: graphics at octave dot org Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 05:56:01 -0600 * Ole Jacob Hagen [2004-11-29 10:24]: > The debian packages can be located at http://scicraft.org/files, for > testing purposes only. Where are the *.dsc and *.orig.tar.gz files, needed to build the package from source? I know that I can build the package from the CVS sources, but the presence of the above mentioned makes things easier (think of apt-get source). As a Debian developer, I would sponsor this package, as soon at it becomes usable. Since Shai Ayal also manifested himself in this thread, I would like to express my wishes here. It seems that Ayal's octplot and yours oplot are very similar projects. The main difference lays on the choice of the GUI toolkit (octplot uses FLTK, while oplot uses QT). If I could choose, my preference would be GTK, which is the ubiquitous toolkit nowadays. However, library preferences apart, I am really wondering whether octplot and oplot could be merged. An abstraction layer would then be defined such that the new Handle Graphics interface to Octave could be run using any graphical toolkit. What do you think? -- Rafael