[Numpy-discussion] wanted: decent matplotlib alternative

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:42 PM, John Hunter <jdh2358 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Eric Firing <efiring at hawaii.edu> wrote:
>
>>> It would be nice to have a social interface for the mpl gallery like the
>>> one similar to the R-gallery
>>> [http://www.r-bloggers.com/the-r-graph-gallery-goes-social/]
>>
>> I think that the priority should go towards massive pruning,
>> organization, and cleanup of the gallery.  This would be a great project
>> for a new contributor to mpl.
>
> So as to not hijack poor Christoph's thread, who after all is looking
> for mpl alternatives, and not to abuse numpy-discussion's bandwidth
> with mpl issues, I have opened and issue on the github tracker as an
> "open thread" to register gripes and suggestions for mpl doc and
> gallery improvements, particularly as it regards API usage
>
> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/524

I started, but I would like to mention that I'm very happy with the
pyplot interface (even if sometimes it takes a bit of time to figure
out which options to use).

Josef

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