On Jan 4, 2008, at 12:44 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: > Indeed, compiled code in a project basically forces you to have a > windows developer in the team who can build the binary installers. > These days with vmware/qemu it's not the end of the world (it can be > done in a normal computer running linux/osx) but it's still a pain for > most of us, no doubt about it.
Not to open a can of trolls here, but I must strongly disagree. Why does "compiled code" mean "Windows"? I'd recommend that some OpenGL layer be used from Python. Use automake for the build system. We'd have to drop Matplotlib if it required Windows; at the moment we only have Linux and Macintosh developers (the Mac got in because it's a Unix platform, but it still took some porting). I believe that many other scientific research organizations have many Unix boxes and few Windows machines for their analysis workstations. I know it's true of the astronomy places that I've visited, but I haven't seen other science in a while so perhaps Windows has taken over science, too. But at our facility we can't support Windows for scientific development. /me runs away, covering head... ;-) - boyd Boyd Waters Scientific Programmer National Radio Astronomy Observatory Socorro, New Mexico ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
