README.md
1# What is SciDAVis?
2
3SciDAVis is a free application for <i>Sci</i>entific <i>D</i>ata <i>A</i>nalysis and <i>Vis</i>ualization.
4
5[](https://travis-ci.org/highperformancecoder/scidavis)
6
7# License
8
9This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
10it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
11the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
12(at your option) any later version.
13
14This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
15but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
16MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
17GNU General Public License for more details.
18
19A copy of this license is provided in the file gpl.txt.
20
21
22# Platforms
23
24SciDAVis runs on GNU/Linux, Windows and MacOS X;
25possibly also on other platforms like `*`BSD.
26
27# Version numbers
28
29Full SciDAVis releases have a major and minor number. Within a major number, the software should support backwards compatibility of data files and scripting APIs.
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31Releases with 3 numbers are beta releases, and/or release candidates. These will have the same major/minor number as the full release they were based on. The only exception is a X.0.Y release, as there is no X.0 full release. An X.0.Y release is a beta release prior to the first full release of major version X.
32
33# Installation
34
35See [INSTALL.md](INSTALL.md).
36
37Also consider using a prebuilt package, available for [PC and Mac](https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidavis/files/SciDAVis/) or [Linux](http://software.opensuse.org//download.html?project=home%3Ahpcoder1&package=scidavis).
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39
40# User Manual
41
42[Manual](https://highperformancecoder.github.io/scidavis-handbook/)
43
44
45# Web site
46
47http://scidavis.sourceforge.net
48
49
50# Credits
51
52## Developers
53
54The following people have written parts of the SciDAVis source code, ranging from a few lines to large chunks.
55In alphabetical order.
56
57Tilman Benkert[1],
58Knut Franke,
59Miquel Garriga,
60Arun Narayanankutty,
61Russell Standish,
62
63## Documentation
64
65The following people have written parts of the manual and/or other documentation.
66In alphabetical order :
67
68Knut Franke, Roger Gadiou
69
70## Translations
71
72The following people have contributed translations or parts thereof.
73In alphabetical order.
74
75- Tilman Benkert[1],
76- Markus Bongard,
77- Tobias Burnus,
78- Rémy Claverie,
79- f0ma,
80- Jose Antonio Lorenzo Fernandez,
81- Pavel Fric,
82- Jan Helebrant,
83- Daniel Klaer,
84- Peter Landgren,
85- Fellype do Nascimento,
86- Tomomasa Ohkubo,
87- Mikhail Shevyakov,
88- Mauricio Troviano
89
90## Packagers
91
92The following people have made installing SciDAVis easier by providing specialized binary packages.
93In alphabetical order.
94
95- Burkhard Bunk (Debian),
96- Quentin Denis (SUSE),
97- Yu-Hung Lien (Mac OS X),
98- Eric Tanguy (Fedora),
99- Mauricio Troviano (Windows installer)
100
101## QtiPlot
102
103SciDAVis uses code from QtiPlot, which consisted (at the time of the fork, i.e. QtiPlot 0.9-rc2) of code by the following people:
104
105- Tilman Benkert[1],
106- Shen Chen,
107- Borries Demeler,
108- José Antonio Lorenzo Fernández,
109- Knut Franke,
110- Vasileios Gkanis,
111- Gudjon Gudjonsson,
112- Alex Kargovsky,
113- Michael Mac-Vicar,
114- Tomomasa Ohkubo,
115- Aaron Van Tassle,
116- Branimir Vasilic,
117- Ion Vasilief,
118- Vincent Wagelaar
119
120The SciDAVis manual is based on the QtiPlot manual, written by (in alphabetical order):
121
122Knut Franke, Roger Gadiou, Ion Vasilief
123
124footnotes:
125[1] birth name: Tilman Hoener zu Siederdissen
126
127## Special Thanks
128
129We also want to acknowledge the people having helped us indirectly by contributing to the following
130fine pieces of software. In no particular order.
131
132- Qt (http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/credits.html),
133- Qwt (http://qwt.sourceforge.net/#credits),
134- Qwtplot3D (http://qwtplot3d.sourceforge.net/),
135- muParser (http://muparser.sourceforge.net/),
136- Python (http://www.python.org/),
137- liborigin (http://sourceforge.net/projects/liborigin/),
138- Vim (http://www.vim.org/thanks.php/),
139- webgen (http://webgen.rubyforge.org/),
140- Doxygen (http://www.doxygen.org/),
141- Subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/),
142- GSL (http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/)
143
144... and many more we just forgot to mention.
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