Re: Bug#502482: ITP: xplot-xplot.org -- fast tool to graph and visualize lots of data

[Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 03:42:59PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> * Package name    : xplot-xplot.org
>   Version         : 0.90.7.1
>   Upstream Author : Tim Shepard <shep@lcs.mit.edu>
> * URL             : http://www.xplot.org/
> * License         : MIT
>   Programming Lang: C, Perl
>   Description     : fast tool to graph and visualize lots of data
> 
> xplot is a fast visualization tool for examining multiple data sets in
> parallel plots.  It supports easy zoom-in and zoom-out capabilities, and
> synchronized views into multiple data sets (with the -x, -y, and -tile
> options).
> 
> The upstream package is named simply "xplot", but this conflicts with a
> different (incompatible) package already in the archive and is thus
> being packaged under a different name.

Looks like the last release was in 2003, is this still maintained
upstream?  If not, what make it stand out beyond the other plotting apps
we have already?


cheers,

Michael