PLplot Notes Its 10,000th Commit 66
iliketrash writes "From the PLplot development team is the announcement of their 10,000th commit: 'PLplot is a cross-platform software package for creating scientific plots that has been in continuous development since its inception 17 years ago. On May 23, 2009 the PLplot developers quietly celebrated our ten thousandth commit since our initial software repository was populated back in May 1992. This longevity puts PLplot in some select company amongst open-source software projects. We may even be unique within this group because all PLplot development has been done by volunteers in their spare time. The enthusiasm for PLplot development continues; we have averaged more than 100 commits per month over the last year which is double our 17-year average, and we are looking forward to the celebration of our next ten thousand commits!'"
Re:Commit? (Score:3, Insightful)
A better question is: what on earth is PLplot?!
...or maybe I'm the only person on Slashdot who had no idea what this software was before finding this article on the home page.
Re:More commits needed to sort the aethetics (Score:3, Insightful)
The example graphs don't look so pleasant though. The (default?) colour scheme is excellent for a semi-lit astronomical dome (doesn't ruin your night vision) but I put those in front a business board without a fair bit of work on the aesthetics
Agreed. When it comes to your papers, you really want the best looking plots, and the examples on the PLPlot site don't even use anti aliasing! Check out the commercial competition [sigmaplot.com]. Mathematica generates pretty plots too, and some amazing mathematical graphics [wolfram.com]. Hell, even a recent Gnuplot seem to do a better job [sourceforge.net] at plotting.