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Fernando Perez wrote:

> Leonardo Milano wrote:
>
>> So, in short, I agree there is a need for the functionality
>> Fernando is suggesting, the question is HOW to implement it.
>
>
> Well, your approach and mine are slightly different in the details.  
> But ultimately it's Michael's call.  I just recently put out 
> 'officially' ipython 0.4.0 with all the recent enhancements (some of 
> which are related to Gnuplot support).  When Michael has a chance, 
> he'll probably have a look and decide how much to use/change for the 
> mainline code.


Well, I have to say that I would like to keep a "clean" interface on the 
Gnuplot class--that is to say, easily understandable, straightforward to 
implement, and without too many special cases.  This can include some of 
the features suggested but not all of them.  Then I think it would be 
excellent to derive from it an "interactive Gnuplot" class with any 
other hairy and terse convenience features, special cases, and whatever 
else that people want.  Of course we can make any reasonable changes to 
the Gnuplot class that are needed to allow the derived class to be 
implemented.

Let's put together a wish list for the "interactive Gnuplot" class and 
then decide how to split the implementation between the old and the new 
class.

One feature that definitely can go into the Gnuplot class is the special 
conversion of 1-D arrays into datasets with one column.

Based on recent performance, it is pretty clear that I won't have time 
for a lot of new implementation soon, so ideally somebody would 
volunteer to work on "interactive Gnuplot" features.  (I could commit to 
make any necessary changes to the main Gnuplot classes.)  I can give 
that person write permission on CVS at sourceforge so you can work 
independently.  Anyone?

Michael

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Michael Haggerty
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