On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote: > Ryan May wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I just started running PyGTK 2.16 and noticed the following everytime >> I run a matplotlib script: >> >> >> /home/rmay/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_gtk.py:621: >> DeprecationWarning: Use the new widget gtk.Tooltip >> self.tooltips = gtk.Tooltips() >> >> Right now, we support >= PyGTK 2.2. The new, non-deperecated API > > pygtk_version_required = (2,4,0)
Ok. I got my number from our install docs: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/installing.html#build-requirements There it says PyGTK 2.2 as a (optional) build dependency. >> (gtk.Tooltip) was added in 2.12 (and the gtk.Tooltips API was >> deprecated at this time). So, my question is how do we want to handle >> this? Do we want to create a helper method that hides the logic to >> determine what method to use (there doesn't look to be an easy way to >> support both)? Or do we just bump our required version? 2.12.0 was >> released in fall 2007. I'm not sure what versions are supplied with >> the various distros. >> > > My sense is that RHEL4 is still common, and will be supported by RH through > early 2012 (http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/). It is way back > at pygtk 2.4. > > I just now committed to svn a little bit of conditional code to support the > new api along with the old one. Minimal testing on my system (new api) > looks OK; more testing with new API, and testing with pygtk < 2.12, are > needed. The changes are extremely simple, but I might have overlooked > something. Awesome, works great here, thanks. Ryan -- Ryan May Graduate Research Assistant School of Meteorology University of Oklahoma ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
