[Kst] Kst2DRenderer + Refactoring Proposal

[Ted Kisner]

On Monday 24 October 2005 14:55, Barth Netterfield wrote:
> Our #1 priority needs to be to get kst, with its current feature set, into
> a solid and bugfree state ASAP.  Any re-factoring, or optimizing, or
> whatever else which is detrimental to this goal needs to be avoided until
> 1.2 is released.  We have added a huge number of great new things over the
> last few months, but it has introduced more regressions than you can shake
> a stick at.

ok, fair enough...

> So: if we are going to do any major changes to 2dplot, they can't be
> started until 1.2 is released.

That's fine- consider this a "proposal for the future" then.  I just wanted to 
propose what I think is a clean interface for generalized rendering.  I also 
wanted to try to go through every detail of the implementation, in order to 
show:

1.  That the interface to the rendering class is well defined.
2.  That this is a tractable problem, but one which requires significant code 
changes.

In the mean time, I'll try to get the healpix datasource finalized by 1.2 (for 
cartesian-only plots).

cheers,

-Ted