I personally don’t really have much interest in plotting in the terminal. I just packaged the code other people had written so that it would be easily available to the community. I’m happy to let people who care about the topic take charge of things.
— John On May 22, 2014, at 8:42 AM, Adam Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > TextPlot seems like a good name. > > Thanks for the offer on merging, but again, there's really nothing to merge. > Adding scatterplots to dotplot will be trivial; I'll do that soon (making > dotplot's features a superset of ASCIIPlots). There is nothing > compatible/overlapping between these two (small) codebases for merging to > make sense. > > I would be curious what John Myles White thinks about a more complete > terminal plotting package for Julia. ASCIIPlots clearly imitates Matlab's > plotting functions ("imagesc"), and I was going for something closer to > Mathematica or Maple (which are more symbolic-oriented than Matlab), since I > think the syntax is prettier. However, I know a large portion of Julia's > users are also Matlab users, so if Matlab-compatibility is a goal, you may > want to keep the packages separate. > > On Thursday, May 22, 2014 11:25:01 AM UTC-4, Leah Hanson wrote: > Maybe something like TextPlot would be a good merged name? It conveys what > the package does (text plots) rather than how it does it (Braille characters). > > Having a more complete plotting package for the terminal would move towards > having a way to make `plot` just work when you start up a Julia REPL, which I > think is a goal. I'd be happy to help merge them, but probably won't have > time for a couple weeks. > > -- Leah > > > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Adam Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not totally opposed to it, but my initial reaction is not to: > 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). > 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. > 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. >
