On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 12:08 PM, j verzani <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > While in my (very biased) opinion I think Plots should be the first package new users install, I don't think it belongs in base. (please don't make me rebuild julia to hack on Plots ;) But I'm wondering... what was so hard about installing on juliabox? Did the `Pkg` commands not work? > The `plotly` backend does not require additional dependencies, so with > that as a default, it would be one less hurdle for newcomers. > Right now, it's the default if nothing else is installed: https://github.com/tbreloff/Plots.jl/blob/master/src/plotter2.jl#L74 > > > 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. >> >
