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Hello,

I've taken over the clnuplot package from Gary King. So, let this be my announcement of my intention to be "malevolent dictator for life (or until I get bored with it)" ;)

I needed a couple of things that either the current version of clnuplot doesn't do, or for which the documentation wasn't there to tell me how to do it. I wanted something simpler to use which is capable of writing arbitrary gnuplot command files.

That being said, the version that I intend to release soon does NOT use CLOS and, instead, is a simple "formatting engine" for writing gnuplot command files in a (hopefully!) lispy kind of way. The interface is rather simular to the old one, but with a few key differences (which I will not get into at this time). I am not /opposed/ to using CLOS (in fact, I like CLOS quite a bit) I just didn't want to have to write a boatload of code to understand all of the possible options in a gnuplot command file (possibly, a future version will again produce CLOS objects, but I believe that will require a fairly significant time investment in order to do "right" and support all of gnuplot).

Despite my self-imposed "malevolent dictator" title, I /DO/ want feedback! I also will welcome any patches once I release some code. Further, I will welcome anyone to join the project on common-lisp.net in order to be able to commit to the CVS tree. :)

Jim

James E. Prewett Jim@Prewett.org download@hpc.unm.edu Systems Team Leader LoGS: http://www.hpc.unm.edu/~download/LoGS/ Designated Security Officer OpenPGP key: pub 1024D/31816D93 HPC Systems Engineer III UNM HPC 505.277.8210