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

[Anne Ghisla]

On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 22:23 +0200, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> The gui component is now also in trunk as of r12697. Please note that
> it seems to want a recent version of Qwt (tested with qwt-5.2.1). If
> you are on ubuntu 9,10 you should find everything you need in apt.

tested also on Debian Testing and r12697, and qwt 5.2.0-1 downloaded via
aptitude.

regards
anne

> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim
> 
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Barry Rowlingson
> <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> >> 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
> >
> 
> 
> 

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