About Boomslang

I created Boomslang to decrease the amount of boilerplate code I had to write when producing graphs for research papers. Boomslang treats data and plots separately and encapsulates them both in objects, giving the programmer the ability to author modular, re-usable graphing code.

Downloading Boomslang

The current stable version of Boomslang is 0.3 beta: http://boomslang.googlecode.com/files/boomslang-0.3b.tar.gz . For a list of new features and bug fixes in this version, check the change log.

Boomslang requires matplotlib. You can get it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-0.99.1/ or install it through your favorite package management utility

Since the rate of churn of Boomslang's feature set is still quite high, I recommend that people use Boomslang by checking out the Mercurial repository:

hg clone https://boomslang.googlecode.com/hg boomslang

Getting Started

To get started, check out the GettingStarted wiki page. To see some examples of Boomslang in action, check out Examples.

Staying Up-To-Date

Users of Boomslang are encouraged to subscribe to the boomslang-users mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/boomslang-users). Feature suggestions and bugs can be filed using the Issues tab above.

Troubleshooting

First, check the FAQ; if a question gets asked more than about twice, I'll put it there. Then, ask the mailing list or ask me.