Re: graphs, guppi or Grace?

[Mathew Yeates <mathew fugue jpl nasa gov>]

I guess my real question, and don't take this the wrong way, is ...
why was guppi written?  What advantage would there be to using it
over other plotting programs?

Mathew
> 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.