On 10/05/2012 11:40 AM, Damon McDougall wrote:
On Friday, October 5, 2012, Michael Droettboom wrote:
On 10/05/2012 06:38 AM, todd rme wrote:
I am trying to do some experimental packages with python 3 and the
latest RC, and I am trying to figure out the situation with some of
the backends. Some are obvious, like wxwidgets and PyQt (Qt3
version).
The issue I am running into is with the gtk backend PyGTK is
deprecated. According to the website, all development halted a year
and a half ago and they say to use PyGObject instead. PyGTK, as far
as I can tell, does not support Python 3 or GTK 3. PyGObject,
however, supports both. So I was wondering what I should be doing
with this backend. Does matplotlib support PyGObject, or should the
GTK backends just be disabled on Python 3 builds?
The new Gtk3Cairo backend uses PyGObject and works under Python
3. (This refers to Gtk version 3, which is also only supported by
PyGObject -- the backend could perhaps have been called PyGObject,
but in fact the toolkit used is still Gtk, so the naming is
perhaps a bit confusing). The older pygtk backend still ships
with Python 3, but a warning is displayed when the user attempts
to use it.
Once PyGObject/PyCairo addresses a shortcoming [1] that prevents a
bitmap buffer from being transferred to an on screen window, the
Gtk3Agg backend will also work.
http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2011-November/022519.html
BTW -- this report has languished for almost a year. Does anyone
know a better way to get the ear of the pycairo developers?
Mike
Do we use pycairo to interface with the Cairo library? Is there any
reason we don't use the C (or C++, I can't remember what libcairo is
written in) directly?
This may get around the issue, but it'd be a lot of work...
We do use pycairo. It certainly would get around the issue, but
duplicate a lot of effort that pycairo already handles for us.
Now that I've seen that the bug has been fixed in pycairo's git (see my
earlier message), I'm comfortable just waiting for the next pycairo
release (assuming it's not too far off).
Mike
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