[SciPy-user] ANN: Veusz 0.5 - a scientific plotting package

[steve schmerler]

Alan, sure it's not very healthy to invent the wheel over and over again but isn't it good to see that there are people 
willing to work on new free software? I totally understand your point of joining efforts and concentrate on promising 
projects but it's a fact that good software will survive and bad won't, yet the decision is made on the users side and 
by use or disuse. I think no one has the right to advice people to join the one or the other project. I really would 
like to have _the_ computing envoronment, _the_ language and _the_ plotting package but the point is that many people 
not working in the same direction is what keeps the whole thing dynamic and innovative.

Cheers,
Steve

Alan G Isaac wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Jeremy Sanders apparently wrote: 
> 
>>http://home.gna.org/veusz/ 
> 
> 
>>Veusz is a scientific plotting package written in Python 
>>(currently 100% Python). It uses PyQt for display and 
>>user-interfaces, and numarray for handling the numeric 
>>data. Veusz is designed to produce publication-ready 
>>Postscript output. 
> 
> 
>>Veusz provides a GUI, command line and scripting interface (based on 
>>Python) to its plotting facilities. The plots are built using an 
>>object-based system to provide a consistent interface. 
> 
> 
> 
> Let me provide a sample "user's perspective".
> 
> 1. Since this is posted to the SciPy list, I assume the 
>    author is aware that many people on this list are using 
>    Matplotlib, which is excellent.  Others I take it are 
>    using Chaco. Others are using Gnuplot.py.
> 2. Yet there is no direct comparison with these other 
>    packages.  I have to guess that the key point is the GUI 
>    interface, whose facilities are not described in detail.
> 3. I'm generally willing to try out new software if 
>    I understand well enough that it has cool new potential, 
>    but from this posting I do not.
> 4. Perhaps most importantly: there are two very serious 
>    projects being discussed regularly on this list (mostly 
>    Matplotlib but also Chaco).  So naturally I wonder if the 
>    author might not more fruitfully be finding a way to 
>    collaborate with these.  Not that it is really any of my 
>    business of course, but as I said I am just providing 
>    a sample "user's perspective".
> 
> Cheers,
> Alan Isaac
> 
> 
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