From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,db1852ec54f81742 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!h4g2000vbw.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ada novice Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Cairo graphics library Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:02:21 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <7f1d3bfd-ffe1-4eae-9cae-3f696bd7b142@k18g2000prh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.240.232.139 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1313384631 22046 127.0.0.1 (15 Aug 2011 05:03:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 05:03:51 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: h4g2000vbw.googlegroups.com; posting-host=130.240.232.139; posting-account=Rr9I-QoAAACS-nOzpA-mGxtAlZ46Nb6I User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HUALESNKRC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110614 Firefox/3.6.18 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20630 Date: 2011-08-14T22:02:21-07:00 List-Id: On Aug 13, 12:26=A0am, Jerry 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