Re: alternatives to gnuplot ?
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 12:21:41AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> Dear Debian-Science,
>
> I am looking for a GNU GPL-compatibly licensed alternative to gnuplot,
> preferably packaged in Debian.
I have been using GLE since 10+ years http://glx.sourceforge.net/
The webpage says it is under a BSD license, IIRC it is not in debian because
of license issues, but it is easy to package. GLE is not maintained by the
original author anymore, it is not entirely clear who wrote what and under
what license, but maybe it has all been cleared up with the new team. It has
been a while that Torsten and me have been looking into packaging it.
> Do you have experiences with some of them ?
I've been using it since before my thesis, I create all my 2D plots with GLE.
It is scriptable and creates ps or eps files. The old DOS versions included
a nice editor, which never worked correctly on *nix systems, but there is an
emacs mode for GLE. The webpage has lots of examples and some manuals.
Christian
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