"JV" == Jens Vollinga <vollinga@physik.uni-wuppertal.de> writes: JV> GiNaC will _never_ ever DRAW things (unless we link it against JV> OpenGL or something similar ...).
Currently I can use pyGinac interactively to feed through a pipe drawing command to Asymptote and see immediately the result in a GV window, no need to link against any graphic library, popen() is sufficient from GiNaC and Asy does the rest. JV> And since it doesn't draw anything there is no need for drawing methods. OK, let's name them "advanced printing methods" ;-) JV> It is a nice idea to have GiNaC produce drawing commands for JV> systems like Asymptote, though. But this is simply PRINTing text ..... JV> case the user wants something more special he can use the JV> technique explained in Ch.6.3. I support this approach. JV> Then I have some light concerns about a continuous maintenance JV> of that additional code (we had a similar issue with printing in JV> python format in the past IIRC), ... JV> future. Somebody will have to take care of that, continuously. This is why I also ad vacating only straightforward functionality in the core GiNaC with a possibility to have more drawing (sorry, printing ;-) methods possibly in a separate library in the anticipated Contrib storage. Best, Vladimir -- Vladimir V. Kisil email: kisilv@maths.leeds.ac.uk -- www: http://maths.leeds.ac.uk/~kisilv/