Can you make a blocker issue for this? Is it worth looping the ipython devs in on this email/issue as well?
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote: > On 2014/08/13, 1:19 PM, Eric Firing wrote: >> Unless there is something odd about my machine and attempted setups, we >> have a very bad situation. I have OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). I am seeing >> the same problem with homebrew python and pip-installed numpy, >> pip-installed mpl from git 1.4rc3, and from Anaconda 2.0.1, all with >> python 3.4. >> >> Do the normal thing: fire up ipython, use %matplotlib magic, import >> numpy and pyplot, make a plot. The macosx backend comes up as the >> default. A plot appears, but it is not interactive. >> >> Maybe this is related to the framework vs non-framework build question. >> In a way, I don't care--the important point is that using *common* >> methods of trying to get started with ipython and mpl on up-to-date >> python, one immediately runs into a basic failure. >> >> If this can't be fixed *fast*, I suggest we make the macosx backend >> available only by special request, not by default, as of a 1.4 release. >> >> Yes, this can go to a github issue if appropriate, but first I want to >> get thoughts from a wider audience. >> >> Comments? >> >> (I'm wondering why this hasn't driven someone else nuts some time >> ago--hasn't anyone else run into this?) >> >> Eric > > Clue: my first try with homebrew was in a virtualenv. Now I installed > everything directly, without the virtualenv, and the first plot trial > worked. Then I tried restarting ipthon and using "%matplotlib qt". > Plotting was OK, but after closing the plot window and going away for a > bit, upon coming back, the ipython terminal was extremely sluggish. > App-nap problems? I was having similar response problems in some > earlier trials as well, with ipython in anaconda. I thought all this > was supposed to have been cleared up by now... > > I went back to anaconda, and verified I am still getting the > unresponsive window--it can't even be resized. > > Eric > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-devel mailing list > Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel -- Thomas Caswell tcasw...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
