As someone who has watched his calculus students struggle with what should be a trivial task -- the installation of `Plots` on `juliabox`, I've wished it were part of base. The `plotly` backend does not require additional dependencies, so with that as a default, it would be one less hurdle for newcomers.
On Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 8:11:57 AM UTC-5, Daniel Carrera wrote: > > Hello, > > Does anyone know the status of Plots.jl? It seems to have come a long way. > At least the documentation makes it look pretty complete: > > http://plots.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ > > I'm looking at the backends. Does anyone know what "Gr", "Qwt", and > "unicodeplots" are? Apparently support for Winston was dropped? > > https://github.com/tbreloff/Plots.jl/issues/152 > > I don't use Winston, but I'm curious to know what happened. Was Winston > hard to support? > > I am currently using PyPlot because I need the maturity of Matplotlib, but > I am happy to see all the effort that's going into making a native plotting > library for Julia. > > Cheers, > Daniel. >
