RE: [Matplotlib-users] advice on writing an application

[massimo s. <mas...@un...>]

>You need to understand that this is simply how free software works: =
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>someone needs something badly enough _for themselves_, they get off =
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>and write it.  Then it's available for all to use (if released).  I did =
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>for interactive mpl support over a year ago, so that's why it's been=20
>prominently displayed for a while (and this _is_ useful to a lot of =
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>since quick-and-dirty interactive data analysis is a very common task). =
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>you guys are doing the same for WX tools, and that's fantastic.   I'm =
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>John will advertise it equally prominently.

>So relax, nobody is trying to be misleading about anything, we're all =
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>simply working on what each of us needs, so the evolution process is =
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>inhomogeneous.

Perhaps I hadn't been clear. I'm not complaining of features missing. =
I'm just saying that, for example, the docs are misleading, because they =
focus on pylab when they would have to show both pylab and the OO =
interface. Pylab is a wonderful feature of MPL, but it's not the only =
one. I'm relaxed, I just feel that it's quite sad to focus only on pylab =
when users would like to know about the beautiful programming interface =
that already exists and that lies beneath.

m.