Re: Cairo graphics library

[Ada novice <yogeshwarsing@gmx.com>]

On Aug 13, 12:26 am, Jerry <lancebo...@qwest.net> wrote:

> Agreed. Seems like I (we?) have had this conversation before.

Yes indeed. And yes you are right in saying that the installation can
be easier. And as you say, it doesn't matter if the installation has
to download other things. As long as different components can
communicate with each other during the installation process even if a
few adjustments are needed here and there, you will have a winning
package for everybody to use.

Well I have been a long user of Matlab and I used it for both the
coding and plotting of the results (most often simple 2D plots with a
set of points for each of the x and y axes). I've shifted to Ada since
last year and I see myself having to return to Matlab to do the
plotting in order to view the results. In any case, I always use
Matlab to produce figures (together with a LaTeX script) in my
documents. But it would be helpful, if I can do some (intermediate)
plotting within my Ada code itself and not having each time to use
Matlab to do the plotting.

I can only hope that as more and more Windows users would consider to
use PLplot with Ada, you will get more feedback and perhaps this will
lead to producing better installation procedures.


Keep it up!

Cheers
YC