[Slackbuilds-users] Future of QtiPlot

[Petar Petrov]

Hi to all,

A new version of QtiPlot (0.9.9) is out. I was hoping that it would build
on -current. However, the source code is not available. I contacted the
developer, Ion Vasilief, and it seems that it will not be made public
anytime soon.

here's a quote from our conversation:

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> where can I download the source code of QtiPlot 0.9.9?
 From nowhere. For the moment you cann't, the source code for the latest
QtiPlot version will be made available in a few years.
The license has changed, no longer GPL.
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So, guys. What would you advise me to do? We can stick with the last
version (0.9.8.9) that is GPL (already quite old, released in 2011) and I
can try to keep it buildable in the future. In principle, I do not mind
maintaining a SlackBuild for 'abandoned' source. However, QtiPlot is not
all that trivial to build and I am afraid that I lack the skills to fix
future issues.

May be it's time to look for an alternative, like ScidaVis?

http://scidavis.sourceforge.net/about.html

It looks similar and IIRC it was forked from QtiPlot. The latest version is
from this year and the license is GPL.

I will appreciate any suggestions.

bye

Petar
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