[Bug-plotutils] Re: Guile bindings for Plotutils

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Hi, Mike.  As the plotutils programmer-and-maintainer, I'd be
quite interested in seeing plotutils bindings for guile, as well
as from other languages.

I assume that by plotutils bindings, you mean mostly libplot
bindings?  It's interesting to consider what a well-designed
interface to libplot from Scheme or any other Lisp-like
language would look like.

The last interface to a large graphics library from Lisp that
I personally looked over was the interface to X11 from Franz
Lisp, many years ago.  As I recall it wasn't very Lisp-like.

I carefully designed the C++ interface to libplot that comes
with plotutils, the C++ class library libplotter, so that it
would be as object-oriented as possible.  It was quite a
task, but I thought making it look `native' was worth doing.
Is the projected guile interface likewise expected to be
guile-like?

Would it be reasonable for a guile interface to be distributed
with plotutils, i.e., so that it is installed into the guile
area by the plotutils automake/autoconf setup, if guile is
available at plotutils compilation and installation time?

--Rob

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> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:15:45 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Mike Gran <address@hidden>
> Subject: [Bug-plotutils] Guile bindings for Plotutils
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> Hi-
>
> There is a discussion over on the guile-user mailing list formalizing
> the library to access Plotutils from GNU Guile.  GNU Guile is an
> interpreter for Scheme, a Lisp-like language.
>
> We would normally set up the library as a stand-alone project, but,
> we could submit the code to the Plotutils project for insertion into
> your distribution, if that is something the Plotutils maintainers would
> be interested in.  I know that Guile bindings were once listed in
> the Plotutils TODO.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike Gran
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