Re: Any pear-package for drawing graphs? Proposal for Images_Graph

On 20 Jul 2003 at 15:08, Pierre-Alain Joye wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 15:01:59 +0200 > "Stefan Neufeind" <Neufeind@speedpartner.de> wrote: > > > For sure there are various toolkits doing more or less the described > > functionality but they are under various licenses and non of it is > > yet available via pear afaik. > > is it a mandatory requirement? Well, generally it's not. But I think we shouldn't start a discussion about all the good points of using a pear-class against using a non- pear-class, right? But just some keyfeatures what using pear means for me: - class is easily available to anybody using php - class is easy to install - class is easy to keep up-to-date (since you can list / download / install all pear-upgrades for the classes you have on your server) - centralizes installs / updates / fixes on a "per-server"-base instead of providing the class / module with every project again and again - ... So if there are pear-packages available we really much prefer them against other solutions if the packages fit our needs. And if they don't you can easily think about contributing some improvements. That's the way pear works in my eyes. For sure there are other good libraries / modules / classes available on the net - commercial as well as non-commercial - which already provide the functionality we're looking for. But then you might as well raise the question why the centralized pear-project was started - and I'm damn sure you don't want to discuss this here :-) > I advice you to use jpgraph even for a commercial project (by pay the > licence fees) or another charts package. I've already had a look at jpgraph, yes. It's one of those packages you can use to do almost anything you can imagine. But on the other hand it might be: a) a bit overloaded if you just need basic graph-functionalitya b and most important) it's not pear :-) Also you might want to have a look at: http://quimby.gnus.org/circus/chart/chart-manual.php if you're interested. Also a very interesting and easy-to-use class. We're planning to keep it that simple to draw graphs by just calling a few easy-to-use functions. > But getting all of these things in PEAR in a near future is not a sure > thing :). For sure you can't seriously think about implementing a new jpgraph for pear in the near future. But that's not the real intention behind it - to offer ALL. Our primary goal at the moment would be to start with drawing 2D-graphs (line-graphs, curves, maybe dot-graphs etc.) as a first step. And if anybody would later send patches to also implement 3d-charts etc. we'd really much appreciate cooperation of the community. What do the others think about it? Stefan Neufeind **************************************************** SpeedPartner, Inh. Michael Metz Neukirchener Str. 57, 41470 Neuss, Germany Tel.: +49-2137 / 929 829, Fax: +49-2137 / 137 17 E-Mail: info@speedpartner.de ****************************************************