Re: Bayani

[Youcef Rabah Rahal <rahal at arabeyes dot org>]

Wow ! I am delighted to hear this interest in Bayani ! That's something... And 
it's the good news of this day :-)

On Monday 02 February 2004 12:47, Baker Abdulhaq wrote:
> 1. a general question :What will be the relation between this project
> and GNUPlot. I mean, is it an arabized front end or not. Will the
> developers "I would like to be one of them" use the code of gnuplot in
> some how ( ex. API)?

No. Bayani is developed from scratch. It is not a front end of GnuPlot. 
However, if you are interested to implement the missing features, that would 
be exciting. Be sure to read the developer-list archives about the main 
purpose of Bayani.

> 2. a technical question for me to learn: What do you call the fit
> algorithm? I mean what is the math. behind it?

Actually, I wrote that algorithm just for fun :-) It's far from being 
performant (it gives some funny results sometimes with rather easy to fit 
data) and the plan is to implement some "real" algorithms: resources about 
that exist all over the net.

I am actually the only developer of Bayani. There are "lots" of TODOS (in 
fact, you can't even imagine the number :-). Please let me know if you are 
interested to work at least on one of the two issues above. There is also the 
postscript issue, but it may be boring.

If you want to test Bayani make sure to download the CVS version and not the 
released one (which is now very outdated): 
http://cvs.arabeyes.org/viewcvs/projects/bayani/

You are more than welcome if you want to contribute. You can start right away, 
just let me know :-)

Salam,

-- 
Youcef R. Rahal
Arabeyes.org
http://www.arabeyes.org/~rahal