Re: graphs, guppi or Grace?

[Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com>]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 03:05:00PM -0700, Mathew Yeates wrote:
> I considering using Grace instead of guppi (there is now
> a  python interface to Grace so I can call it from my
> python plugin)
>
> Would there be any advantage to using guppi over Grace? Grace is not
> gtk based so I wouldnt have the same look and feel as gnumeric. Also, no
> drag and drop support. But Grace is much more mature than guppi and I would
> expect it to have alot more features.
>
> Comments?
>
> Mathew
> (P.S. was formerly known as xmgr)

All current development is with guppi.  The interface between
Gnumeric and Guppi is based on CORBA, Bonobo, & xml which makes it
possible to develop a graphing component using another engine.
However, I have no plans to rush off and do that.  We're barely
scratching the surface of Guppi's capabilities, let's see how much
it can do.