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[Gnuplot-info] What about a wxWidgets port of gnuplot ?

[f18m_217828 <f18...@ya...>]

Hi all,
    I'm new to this list; I did not find any similar question on this 
list so I'm going to make this question:

is it possible to create a "port" of gnuplot to wxWidgets; wxWidgets is 
a cross-platform free C++ toolkit for cross-platform GUIs... I think 
that it would be fantastic if it could be possible to use both projects: 
the wx library for cross-platform GUI and gnuplot for scientific 
plotting. I would be ready to work on such a project... ;-)

I also wonder: is it possible to make a gnuplot library so that other 
programs can embed gnuplot features at link-level ?

Thanks,
Francesco Montorsi

Re: [Gnuplot-info] What about a wxWidgets port of gnuplot ?

[<br...@ph...>]

f18m_217828 wrote:

> is it possible to create a "port" of gnuplot to wxWidgets; 

I don't think so.  wxWidgets is a GPL framework --- but gnuplot's
license appears not to be quite free enough to be compatible with the
GPL, so it would be forbidden to distribute a binary made from combining 
the two.

> I also wonder: is it possible to make a gnuplot library so that other 
> programs can embed gnuplot features at link-level ?

Possible: sure.  Nobody seems to have the will or time to create and
maintain such a version, though.  The way gnuplot works internally means 
that the interface would be either awkward (only command-line inputs 
from the user program to gnuplot), dangerous (direct access of the user 
to gnuplot internal variables) or a involve a *lot* of work (to add the 
missing abstraction of those gnuplot variables).