I'm not totally opposed to it, but my initial reaction is not to: 1. I don't necessarily agree about the name. I personally think "dot plot" has a nice ring to it, and it is a more accurate description of what it does (using Braille characters). This very specifically exploits Unicode (non-ASCII) characters, so calling it an ASCII plot would be misleading (for those who want the restricted character set for some reason). 2. There's not really a single line of code they have in common, so there's nothing to "merge": it would just be a rename. I didn't look at the code of ASCIIPlots before making it, and we chose completely different APIs. For example, ASCIIPlots doesn't have a way to plot functions, and DotPlot doesn't (yet) have a way to scatterplot an array. 3. They are both quite small and simple (dotplot is ~100 lines of code, ascii is ~250); merging would probably be more work than either originally took to create.
On Thursday, May 22, 2014 1:31:10 AM UTC-4, Ivar Nesje wrote: > > Would it make sense to merge this functionality into ASCIIPlots? To me > that seems like a better name, and John Myles White is likely to be willing > to transfer the repository if you want to be the maintainer. That package > started from code posted on the mailing list, and the author thought it was > a joke. John packaged it for others to use.
