I would like to package and maintain ploticus for Cygwin. Ploticus is command-line software for creating plots and graphics, similar to gnuplot.
Ploticus is part of Debian unstable: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/ploticus. Source homepage: http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/ Source download: http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/download/pl232src.tar.gz Docs download: http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/download/pl232site.tar.gz License: GPL As you can see from the subject, I've split ploticus into four packages for Cygwin. Here's an excerpt from the README file that describes the packages: ploticus: Ploticus executable and test suite. Please note that although the ploticus manual refers to the ploticus executable as 'pl', in Cygwin its name is /usr/bin/ploticus. (The name /usr/bin/pl is already taken by file in the SWI-Prolog package.) You must either substitute 'ploticus' in place of 'pl' everywhere, or else create a symlink, e.g. from /usr/local/bin/pl to /usr/bin/ploticus. This should work just fine as long as you don't have the SWI-Prolog package installed. libploticus: Static library of ploticus functions, for inclusion into C programs. See http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/doc/api.html for documentation of the libploticus API. ploticus-common: Prefabs. ploticus and libploticus both depend on this package, so you shouldn't have to explicitly select it for installation. ploticus-doc: HTML documentation, gallery, and examples. If you don't mind going online to read the ploticus documentation (URL below), then you don't need to install this package. Other packaging notes: - SWF output capability has been omitted for now, since libming isn't available yet for Cygwin. All of the other output capabilities are there: X11, PNG, SVG, JPEG, WBMP, PS, and EPS, with FreeType2 support. - The Bitstream Vera fonts and extra Javascript files that Reini listed aren't in these packages. They're not part of the ploticus source, I don't have them, and either I don't know their purpose (Javascript) or they probably belong in a different package (fonts). However, if it makes sense to add them I can do so. Please review, and if the packages are found suitable, upload. Thanks, Andrew. <setup.hint for ploticus> sdesc: "Command-line plot and graph generator" ldesc: "Ploticus is command-line software for creating plots, charts, and graphics from data. Ploticus is good for automated or just-in-time graph generation. With ploticus you can use 'prefabs' to quickly create common types of graphs, or write scripts to get full control. Ploticus can make scatter, bar, box, range, vector, pie, and venn charts, and offers curve fitting, multiple axes and plot areas, legends, and text overlays. It allows significant user control over colors, styles, options and details. It handles date and time data nicely, and has basic statistical capabilities. The results can be output to an X11 display or as PNG, JPEG, WBMP, SVG, PS, or EPS images. Ploticus can also generate image maps and mouseover labels, for inclusion into Web pages." category: Graphics requires: cygwin expat libfontconfig1 libfreetype26 libgd2 libiconv2 libjpeg62 libpng12 ploticus-common xorg-x11-bin-dlls zlib </setup.hint for ploticus> <setup.hint for libploticus> sdesc: "Command-line plot and graph generator" ldesc: "Ploticus is command-line software for creating plots, charts, and graphics from data. This package contains libploticus.a, a static library of ploticus functions for linking into C programs." category: Graphics Libs requires: cygwin expat libfontconfig1 libfreetype26 libgd2 libiconv2 libjpeg62 libpng12 ploticus-common xorg-x11-bin-dlls zlib external-source: ploticus </setup.hint for libploticus> <setup.hint for ploticus-common> sdesc: "Command-line plot and graph generator" ldesc: "Ploticus is command-line software for creating plots, charts, and graphics from data. This package contains files that are needed by both the ploticus and libploticus packages." category: Graphics requires: external-source: ploticus </setup.hint for ploticus-common> <setup.hint for ploticus-doc> sdesc: "Command-line plot and graph generator (HTML documentation)" ldesc: "Ploticus is command-line software for creating plots, charts, and graphics from data. This package contains the HTML documentation, gallery, and examples for ploticus." category: Graphics Doc requires: </setup.hint for ploticus-doc> http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/ploticus/setup.hint http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/ploticus/ploticus-2.32-1.tar.bz2 http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/ploticus/ploticus-2.32-1-src.tar.bz2 http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/libploticus/setup.hint http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/libploticus/libploticus-2.32-1.tar.bz2 http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/ploticus-common/setup.hint http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/ploticus-common/ploticus-common-2.32-1.tar.bz2 http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/ploticus-doc/setup.hint http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/ploticus-doc/ploticus-doc-2.32-1.tar.bz2 http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/ploticus-doc/ploticus-doc-2.32-1-src.tar.bz2
