On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Paul Ivanov <pivanov...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Fernando Garcia Bermudez, on 2011-02-03 09:14,  wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 06:05, Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu>
> wrote:
> > > On 02/03/2011 07:48 AM, Darren Dale wrote:
> > >> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Fernando Garcia Bermudez
> > >> <mov...@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Before continuing the debug process, though, I wanted to check with
> > >>> someone knowledgeable of this branch regarding its current status. Is
> > >>> it possible to compile matplotlib on python3?
> > >>>
> > >> Mike D. did some initial work for py3 support a while back. I don't
> > >> know what platform he was working on, but he was able to produce a
> > >> simple plot, maybe running the simple_plot demo.
> > >>
> > > I was working on Linux (RHEL5), and never got past that platform.
> >
> > I'll stay on the lookout for the github py3k branch and will do as
> > suggested. Thanks for the update.
> >
>
> By the way, there was a recent poll on python.org for packages
> where users desire Python 3 support.
>
> Here are the top 10:
>
> Votes | Package
> ------+--------
>  837  | Django
>  454  | wxPython
>  406  | scipy
>  364  | matplotlib
>  327  | PIL
>  266  | py2exe
>  185  | Twisted
>  179  | PyGTK
>  135  | Pygame
>  94  | web2py
>
> http://python.org/3kpoll
>
> best,
> --
> Paul Ivanov
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>


Which just goes to show that some people don't understand dependencies...
(PIL and PyGTK are needed by matplotllib to be fully py3k compatible).
Hopefully this will light a fire for them as well.

Ben Root
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