At this point, the expected dependencies are on freetype for font rendering and Numpy and/or PIL for imaging. Nothing platform-specific.
There aren't any plans to make it usable from other languages, but certainly a commandline interface would be trivial. Mike Kasper Peeters wrote: > Hi all, > > I noticed that a Google Summer of Code project has been allocated for > extraction of the TeX rendering engine of matplotlib. Excellent! > > Are there already any more concrete ideas on how this will be realised > technically, in particular how this engine will be callable from > Python programs? Will it be bound to e.g. PyGtk or some other > low-level graphics library? And is there perhaps a plan to make this > usable also from other languages? (I am thinking concretely about C++ > for my own needs, but can very well imagine that this would be > extremely useful also in other languages; something like a 'glib for > TeX, plus language wrappers' would be ideal). > > Best, > Kasper > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and > around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save > $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. > 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. > Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
