kai-martin knaak wrote:
Dan McMahill wrote:
So.... I'd say that especially in the opensource area, a good waveform
viewer is not reinventing the wheel. It is time to make a round one
instead of the existing square ones!
IMHO, you underestimate the effort to get were grace and gnuplot already
are. The existing wheel is not square, but a fully functional sports utility
vehicle. You just need to add a few extra levers and you have an ideal
versatile simulation waveform viewer plus the benefit to produce publication
quality printouts.
Upon further reflection, I think my analogy was not so good. I want a
band saw and have been presented with a table saw. Both are useful,
both do their respective jobs well, but one may not do the others job so
well. The fact that they are both saws may not make them sufficiently
similar to warrant modifying one. This was certainly my conclusion when
looking at matlab as a waveform tool (the graphics were just too
fundamentally presentation-only) even though it has very power processing.
I'll have to try out oscopy and it looks to me like they really are not
reinventing everything from scratch anyway. Between dbus for IPC and
matplotlib for graphics and python for a language, it looks like there
is a lot done already.
-Dan
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