Recommendation on plotting library

[Chris Piker]

On Friday, 21 July 2023 at 17:40:25 UTC, Greggor wrote:

> Up to date versions of Windows 10 should have curl included and 
> dub can run commands before building, so you could try 
> downloading a prebuilt lib for windows via curl. 
> https://everything.curl.dev/get/windows

Hey, nice!  This might be a winner.  Unless I'm missing something 
libcairo-2.dll, libpng13.dll and zlib1.dll could be downloaded, 
and then ggplotd plot can build against those (probably?).

The key thing that dub is missing compared to pip is some concept 
of an "install" directory.  Compared to everything else dub 
handles, not adding this capability mostly comes down to self 
imposed limitations.  I wonder how many in the community would 
like to see those limitations removed?

I presume it's just as easy to add commands that run after the 
build as before.  I could have an alternate dub configuration 
that's short for "setup_build_test_install" that runs everything.

If multiple projects start defining an install target the same 
way, then you have a convention, which can eventually lead to a 
standard.