On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:01 PM, John Hunter <jdh2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 25, 2011, at 7:00 PM, Christoph Gohlke <cgoh...@uci.edu> wrote:
>
>> Are PIL and PyGTK holding back matplotlib for Python 3
>
> Not at all. Both are optional dependencies. Mpl's hard external dependencies 
> are python, zlib, libpng, freetype and numpy.  With those you get the agg, 
> pdf, ps and svg backends.   Various GUI tooolkits are optional, as is PIL, 
> which provides some image reading capabilities and image comparisons for the 
> unit tests.

Those interested in py3 support should see
github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib-py3 and
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib-py3/wiki . Mike D. has
already made a good start.

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