Re: Graphic support in CVS

[Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org>]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 03:43:26PM +0100, Karim Belabas wrote:
> > > 3) was at the best of times quite difficult to build ( I failed more often
> > > than not when trying to compile gnuplot support ).
> > 
> > Same may be said about building GP/PARI.
> 
> I do not think this is true.

So, here our experience differs.  I do not think I had GP/PARI compile
out-of-the-box on more than 10% of "public" systems (ones with a
separate system administrator) I was on.

> > > 6) brought in legal difficulties [ the gnuplot license is not so permissive ]
> > 
> > I do not think the code of the shim is anyway bound by the gnuplot
> > license.

> Doesn't Term::Gnuplot contain code modules taken verbatim from some gnuplot
> sources ?

It does.  But with dynamic loading (which I favor much over the static
one) only the shim is visible from GP/PARI.  GP/PARI has no way to
know that the shim APIs may be translated to low-level Gnuplot API;
these are details of implementation of Term::Gnuplot subject to change
at any moment...

Hope this helps,
Ilya