[rrd-developers] Re: some questions on future features of rrdtool

[Chris Fedde]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 01:47:55 +0100 (CET)  Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote:
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 | Chris Fedde wrote:
 | 
 | > How do you propose representing time series data in a pie chart?
 | 
 | I can think of one good reason: one doesn't always need to see the
 | data sequentially.  For instance, I would be interested in viewing
 | packet sizes as an percentage.  I do not necessarily want to know
 | when the large packets are sent.  In a pie chart, this can be made
 | visible much more clearly than with the current available graph.
 | (so would an histogram by the way)
 | 
 | > Again if you have more general graphing needs use fetch and laod
 | > the data into a more general graphing tool.
 | 
 | That can be said about *everything* we do with RRDtool.  The program
 | itself is innovation so don't try to stop innovation/progress.
 | 
 | cheers,
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I'll be the first to admit that I'm a bit of a luddite when it
comes to feature creep.  To my way of thinking the primary value
to RRD is the data file format itself.  The graphing features are
nice but not strictly necessary.  IMHO the stack language used
by rrdtool graph seems much more cumbersome than doing similar
things using gnuplot, one of the perl or python graphing modules
or even excel.

I don't want to discourage anyone from implementing this functionality
and more.  But if it were my choice I'd be asking for better featrues
to describe what goes into the data file and getting those descriptions
back out again.

--
    Chris Fedde

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