Re: [matplotlib-devel] Auto backend discovery at start time

2008-11-01 Thread John Hunter
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 5:37 AM, Sandro Tosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello guys! > Following up the discussion Benjiamin and me had about a couple of > bugs in Ubuntu[1] and Debian[2], and what Mike wrote on [1], we'd like > to explore the possibility for you to develop a "backend=Auto" mode, >

[matplotlib-devel] Please test this patch on windows...

2008-11-01 Thread Darren Dale
I attempted to improve the dependency checking in matplotlib.__init__, using the subprocess module to silence some deprecation warnings encountered with py2.6. I dont have access to a Windows machine, would someone please test the attached patch or __init__.py file to see if it works on that pla

[matplotlib-devel] Auto backend discovery at start time

2008-11-01 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hello guys! Following up the discussion Benjiamin and me had about a couple of bugs in Ubuntu[1] and Debian[2], and what Mike wrote on [1], we'd like to explore the possibility for you to develop a "backend=Auto" mode, that can discover automatically at runtime the backend to use from the ones avai