At 10:03 AM -0800 2007-12-05, Christopher Barker wrote: >Russell E Owen wrote: >>At 10:08 AM -0500 2007-12-05, Stephen Uhlhorn wrote: >>>Just for my edification, why can't the egg version be linked >>>against/include a different Tcl/Tk? >> >>If you mean why can't it be built that way in the first place, I >>don't know. The guy who builds it apparently doesn't read this list, > >Sure he does (if you mean the matplotlib list), and he did ask about >it right before this release. Maybe that was asked on >matplotlib-devel though (I filter them to the same place).
It was on matploblib-devel. I'll start skimming that newsgroup. >>I suspect the official egg can somehow be patched, but I find it >>easier to just build my own and put that on pythonmac. > >Ideally, there would be only one binary version, and it would work >with either Tcl/Tk. Is that possible? or is this like the old wx >situation, where it can only be run with the same version it is >built against. Arrggg! I hope not. The version I build *can* be used with the built in Tcl/Tk. The version Charlie Moad builds cannot be used with TkAgg and a 3rd party Tcl/Tk -- it not only won't use the library, but it also acts flaky. Older versions crashed. 0.91.1 doesn't crash, but import of pylab fails with a traceback. For some reason it seems to be necessary to have a 3rd party Tcl/Tk installed when building matplotlib. It seems a shame. Tkinter in Python 2.4 was the same way, but that got fixed in Python 2.5 (I don't whether the installer got fixed or whether whoever builds Mac Python 2.5 installed a 3rd party Tcl/Tk). >If there really do need to be two, then they should be labeled >somehow, and both be up on python mac. Since there don't need to be two versions this is not necessary. However, Charlie Moad appears to be willing to start building a version that works with 3rd party Tcl/Tk. I really hope that happens. -- Russell ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
