Re: A new approach for monitoring simulation data

Stefan,
I agree that your proposed new Monitor is powerful and very flexible to 
use. However, I don't think that it is as simple and/or intuitive as the 
Monitor now in SimPy.

Yes, numpy/scipy/matplotlib are standard fare for many scientific Python 
users. SimPy users, however, often come from the Operations Research 
side and are not necessarily experienced scientific Python users. Would 
you believe that many newbie SimPy users already have difficulties with 
SimPy installation? Expecting them to install numpy/scipy/matplotlib 
just to get SimPy going might just be to steep a learning curve.

I would be very happy if you could develop your new Monitor as an 
optional SimPy library/module and publish it, together with sufficient 
user documentation with examples. Give it a name other than Monitor, though.

Regards,

Klaus Müller

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