[Chart] [diagrams] ANN: Chart library v1.0

[Carter Schonwald]

Awesome!
Thank you very much for the work you and Jan have done this summer. I'm
installing it all right now so I can use it post haste!


On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Tim Docker <tim at dockerz.net> wrote:

> I'm pleased to announce version 1.0 of the Chart library - a
> library for rendering 2D charts in haskell. It supports a variety
> of plot types, and several different rendering backends.
>
> Whilst the library has seen sporadic patches and releases in
> recent years, development has seen a huge spike over the last
> 3 months thanks to Jan Bracker's excellent GSOC work.
>
> The key changes in this release are:
>
> * The rendering backend has been abstracted, and there are
>   rendering implementations for cairo and the diagrams library.
>   The removal of the dependency on cairo should make the chart
>   library more useful to haskell developers on windows and
>   OSX. Jan Bracker has put a huge effort into this change.
>
> * The library has switched from using data-accessor to lenses to
>   provide accessors for the plotting data model. Thanks to Ben
>   Gamari for this change.
>
> These, along with various other API changes justify a 1.0 version.
>
> Details of the library and code examples can be found on the
> github wiki:
>
>     https://github.com/timbod7/**haskell-chart/wiki<https://github.com/timbod7/haskell-chart/wiki>
>
> The packages and API documentation are on hackage:
>
>     http://hackage.haskell.org/**package/Chart<http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Chart>
>     http://hackage.haskell.org/**package/Chart-cairo<http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Chart-cairo>
>     http://hackage.haskell.org/**package/Chart-diagrams<http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Chart-diagrams>
>
> Tim Docker
>
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