On Jul 26, 5:24 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Johnson) wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 09:40:36AM -0700, Inventor wrote: > > On Jul 26, 8:26 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mr. Shawn H. Corey) wrote: > > > > Welcome to Dependency Hell. (You know you're in trouble when there is a > > > derogatory nickname for what you're doing.) > > > You know what, rather than deal with Dependency Hell in multiple > > environments, this morning I wrote my own plotting routine that does > > ASCII scatter plots. You just give it a data set and it makes a nice > > cute little ascii plot for you, no dependencies, no Hell, and it's > > good enough for me. You don't think the CPAN folks would want such a > > module, do you? > > Of course they would. CPAN folks are just us, and if your module is > somehow better than anything else out there then it belongs on CPAN. > > Your other option would have been to let either CPAN or CPANPLUS manage > the dependencies. It's quite easy when you know how. > > $ perldoc CPAN > > -- > Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED]://www.pjcj.net
Well, it turned out to be a nifty little module. I set up all the variables with defaults for size and the like, so all anyone has to do to use it is pass a reference to an array of (x,y) pairs and poof! They get an ASCII scatter plot. Its about as easy as any plotting module could be and no Dependency Hell, so yeah, I guess its worth submitting. The submission FAQ says they want a makefile with it so I guess I'll go read up on that. Oh, and when I ran CPAN on my system and told it to install something, it said "LWP not available" and kept going to other sites looking for some module, always ending with "LWP not available". Maybe I would have to manually install the LWP module and then CPAN would work for me. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
