Considering no one has used it in 4 years that I remember, my guess is
that it is an abandonded Berkeley project.
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > > Does anyone know what backend/tioga is for? It's not Spanish for TOAST,
> > > is it? :-) It looks like it wasn't compilable for quite a while.
> >
> > It was some db visualization tool. There is a web page about it
> > somewhere at Berkeley. I say remove the directory. It is junk now.
>
> that is a bit rash considering that you tend to imply that you don't even
> know what it is?
>
> Peter, according to google, the primary Berkeley site that comes up is:
>
> http://datasplash.cs.berkeley.edu/
>
> "DataSplash combines a sophisticated navigation model with a paint program
> interface with which users can create custom visualizations. A beta
> version of the software is now available."
>
> And, from the overview:
>
> "Tioga DataSplash (formerly known as Tioga-2) allows users to
> interactively create and browse visualizations of database tables.
> DataSplash was developed by members of the Tioga Project at the University
> of California at Berkeley. DataSplash software is available on Alpha/OSF,
> HP/UX, Intel/Linux, and Sparc /Solaris platforms. We are porting to other
> UNIX platforms as well."
>
> The "Quick Tour" looks really cool, but I'm not sure how tied into
> the whole backend/tioga directory this whole thing is. My first feel is
> that 'tioga datasplash' is a userland application, but someone else might
> be able to make a better determination?
>
> Check out this, which explains what 'Splashes' are ... it almost
> gives me the feel of Visual Statistical Modeling ... ?
>
> http://datasplash.cs.berkeley.edu/splashes.html
>
> If it isn't breaking anything, please leave it in there, as I'd
> like to look into this a bit further ...
>
>
>
>
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