[GRASS-dev] d.histogram: x axis ticks labels fixed

[Moritz Lennert]

On 28/01/08 16:42, Michael Barton wrote:
> 
> On Jan 28, 2008, at 8:32 AM, grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:
> 
>> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:55:34 +0100
>> From: Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be>
>> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] d.histogram: x axis ticks labels fixed
>> To: Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: GRASS developers list <grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
>> Message-ID: <479DD0C6.5080906 at club.worldonline.be>
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>> On 27/01/08 10:00, Hamish wrote:
>>> Before we spend too much more time on this module, were there plans to
>>> reimplement the module as a wxPython program using one of the python
>>> plotting libs?
>>
>> ISTR that we had this debate before, but I would plead for some basic
>> graphing functionality to remain available outside of the GUI. Now since
>> we have decided that python is going to be the scripting language in the
>> future, it is probably reasonable to require it as dependency, but
>> please make sure that you can also get the results of d.histogram into a
>> ps/png file at the command line.
>>
>> Moritz
> 
> Moritz,
> 
> For command line folks, can't you just pipe the results of r.stats into 
> gnuplot? It would probably look better too.

Probably, but it means another dependency and, more importantly, another 
program to learn.

But don't you think that it would be possible to separate the GUI 
interface from the actual drawing code (both being in python) and thus 
make the latter accessible also from the command line ?

Moritz