Re: Change in goffice graph file format

[Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

Le samedi 14 juillet 2007 à 00:16 +0200, Emmanuel Pacaud a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> Le mardi 03 juillet 2007 à 22:18 +0200, Emmanuel Pacaud a écrit :
> > During my recent work on graph fill support for xy and polar plots, it
> > came clearly (at least for me:) ) that the interpolation property in
> > GogStyle is out of place, and should be put in GogSeries. I'd like to do
> > the move, but if I do that, that would mean a file format change, since
> > GogStyle properties are handled differently than the other GogObjet
> > properties. I guess it's not an issue for gnumeric, since we have not
> > yet released a stable version that uses this property. But that would
> > break other applications that already use the goffice 0.4 version (and
> > use also the interpolation property, of course).
>
> Here's the path that does the move. 
>
> Any comments ?
>
>       Emmanuel.

I'm not sure it's a good idea. With the current implementation, we might
apply interpolation to objects which are not series such as trend lines
(when playing with non linear regressions, I encountered cases were the
current spline interpolation does not give an acceptable result).

Cheers,
Jean
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Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>