[racket-dev] Adding the new plot library [was: Re: Plot?]

Just now, Robby Findler wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> > Just now, Robby Findler wrote:
> >> I don't think that what I said implies this. A compatibility layer
> >> using Neil's new library is what was offered (or so I thought). I
> >> think we just want something that has the same Racket-level UI and
> >> something reasonably close in the pictures you get out, as discussed
> >> earlier.
> >
> > If it's just that layer (rather than keeping the C code in), then it's
> > not completely compatible anyway.  (And I don't see a point in keeping
> > a "strict" backward compatibility if it's not strict anyway.)
> 
> We seem to be miscommunicating. I'm saying that it seems likely that
> people have scripts and things that use the API of the plot library
> to build graphs and things in various places. I'm saying that it
> seems unlikely that people have programs that depend on a
> pixel-perfect rendering.

The issue is not pixel placements, it's keeping the C code that was
ripped out of gnuplot.


> I'm saying that, imo, the best thing we can do for our users here is
> provide a compatibility layer for the old plot in the same place as
> the old plot currently is that calls into the new plot and uses it
> to draw the actual pictures.

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