What are all good GUI & plotting package options for Maxima?

Stavros

Clean interfaces are important yes.  The answer which seems
to please everyone and seems to be the right one is
a funny one (in a sad way)......

Make a clone of gnuplot under the gpl.  gplplot?

Chris






On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 11:15:05AM -0500, Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> SM> let's not write off gnuplot for license reasons just yet.
> 
> CY> If the gnuplot team were to up and quit, all we could do if
> CY> I understand correctly would be to release patches against the
> CY> last version....
> 
> If you read the *whole* gnuplot license, you'll see that it allows the
> distribution of the unmodified release as well as patches to it.  Users
> *do not* need to get the base version from the gnuplot group directly.
> So all that means is that you are not allowed to redistribute the
> modified source by itself, only in the form <base version> + <patches>,
> and there is no restriction on the scope or nature of the patches.  For
> CVS distribution, that is a no-op: CVS takes care of it for you.  For
> packaged releases (tar file or CD), it is a minor glitch.  I really
> can't see that this issue is a deal-breaker.  The only issue I can see
> here is that the delta possibly becomes very big in time, but so what?
> 
> Still, as I said, no matter what plotting package(s) we support, we
> should keep our interface to them as clean and standard as possible.
> 
>      -s
> 
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