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

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> 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.

So I guess I don't understand. Why would we want to keep that? (I can
see why we would want to get rid of it.)

Robby