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[cellml-dev] The log-axis feature - this release or next?


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  • From: r.britten at auckland.ac.nz (Randall Britten)
  • Subject: [cellml-dev] The log-axis feature - this release or next?
  • Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 12:08:10 +1300

I'd vote for delaying the log-axis feature till after the 0.3 release.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cellml-tools-developers-bounces at cellml.org [mailto:cellml-tools-
> developers-bounces at cellml.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Miller
> Sent: Thursday, 1 November 2007 11:26 a.m.
> To: A list for the developers of CellML tools
> Subject: [cellml-dev] The log-axis feature - this release or next?
>
> Hi all,
>
> I think we need to decide if we should hold the feature which plots
> logs
> the axes or if we should try to get it in for the upcoming release of
> PCEnv 0.3. I think that it may end up delaying the upcoming release if
> we want to include it.
>
> Open issues with it:
> 1) the current semantics are not necessarily ideal - it assumes that
> you are plotting a variable which has already been logged, but instead
> plots ticks on the X axis. It would be better if we could modify
> DataToCanvasRequest to take the log (although this might be too big a
> change to make at this stage in the release process).
> 2) the new code seems to get the clipping rectangle wrong in some
> cases (this may have been an older issue from the percentage
> normalisation feature).
>
> This is not a regression from the previous release because it has only
> just been added recently and has never been working. I think that
> perhaps we could put the log code on a branch (or even leave the code
> in
> but disable the user interface for it until after the release), and try
> to get the code into a working state which doesn't need the log feature.
> After the release we can commence work on it again. As long as we don't
> take too long to get the release out and we restart work on it after
> branching, we shouldn't have to lose all the work Justin has put into
> it
> and we will have lots of time to get everything working well before 0.4.
>
> Opinions?
>
> Best regards,
> Andrew
>
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