#14594: Make dot2tex work with matplotlib 1.2.x (as well as older versions)
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Reporter: aschilling | Owner: sage-combinat
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: critical | Milestone: sage-5.10
Component: packages: optional | Resolution:
Keywords: dot2tex spkg pyparsing | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Reviewers: Travis Scrimshaw
Authors: Leif Leonhardy | Merged in:
Dependencies: | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by leif):
Replying to [comment:42 nthiery]:
> Replying to [comment:19 leif]:
> > I thought it was (or had to be) optional because of its MIT license,
but IANAL.
>
> According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License, MIT is GPL
> compatible, so that should not be an issue.
Yes, just read the same... :-)
[[BR]]
> Granted dot2tex is not so useful without graphviz (and graphviz is
> supposed to have a GPL incompatible license; though we don't link to
> it, well, IANAL either). I still think it would simplify our user's
> life to have dot2tex standard, and only have to worry about installing
> graphviz if not already preinstalled in the distro.
We could ship it as a standard spkg, and only build / install it if its
prerequisites (e.g. graphviz) are present.
Or install it regardless (although then certainly `spkg-check` would fail
if not all necessary parts are available), but then IMHO Sage must not
bail out in a bad way if the user tries to use it without having the other
parts. Don't know how much of an effort that would mean.
[[BR]]
> What do you think? Should I make a poll on sage-devel for making
> dot2tex a standard spkg, either in this ticket or a later ticket?
I personally don't care much...
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