On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Ryan Wagner<rwag...@vni.com> wrote: > I hate to ask this question. Is there somewhere I can download the latest > svn release compiled for Windows? I have been completely unsuccessful in > compiling MPL for windows and rely on the binaries, but I need to work with > the mplot3D functionality. From what I’ve seen on Linux, it looks great! TIA > > -Ryan
An option to consider: run Linux in a virtual machine on a Windows host. I have a similar situation (unrelated to MPL) and that's what I do. Works great for me. I've tried VMware, VirtualBox, and AndLinux. All work, but I alternate between VirtualBox (probably because that's the one I tried first) and AndLinux. VirtualBox was *very easy* to set up, and it Just Works (ymmv). AndLinux is an intriguing option; it's not a Linux emulator (if that's the right word). It runs a Linux kernel as a Windows process, so it behaves as if it were a Windows app. Similar apparent behavior is available in VirtualBox; I think they call it "seamless mode". AndLinux is a little bit harder to set up than VirtualBox. I did some **very rough** speed checks. AndLinux seems to run numpy programs at about 80% of native Windows speed. VirtualBox is about 10% slower than AndLinux. (That was *one* test on *one* script.) Networking works fine in both. I've compiled Sage, and ran a Sage notebook webserver from both VirtualBox and AndLinux, accessing the server from another machine. Everything works. -gary ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
