[Qgis-developer] Proposal: Add Qwt as a soft dependency for GPS integration

[Barry Rowlingson]

> Either use it as a hard dependency or don't use it at all. Personally
> I don't have any experience with Qwt and it's capabilities. I guess it
> doesn't have as many features as e.g. python's matplotlib, anyway it
> might be a good candidate for drawing graphs also in future.

 I think with Qwt you get graph and control widgets that integrate
into the Qt framework, so you can build them into Qt dialogs with
designer and interact with them via signals in the usual Qt way.

 matplotlib is clearly a superior 2d plotting library though :)

Barry