Re: [matplotlib-devel] Experiments in removing/replacing PyCXX

2012-12-06 Thread Eric Firing
On 2012/12/06 7:16 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > I think this has been a very helpful and useful discussion. > > I'm going to attempt to summarize this discussion and propose some ways > forward here. > > The impetus for this discussion is that PyCXX seems to be not adequately > maintained. It i

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Experiments in removing/replacing PyCXX

2012-12-06 Thread Nicolas Rougier
Just for completeness, there is also ctypes. I wrapped the freetype library (http://code.google.com/p/freetype-py/) using it and it is quite easy (and boring). But this only works for C (not C++). Nicolas On Dec 6, 2012, at 18:06 , Michael Droettboom wrote: > I think this has been a very h

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Experiments in removing/replacing PyCXX

2012-12-06 Thread Michael Droettboom
I think this has been a very helpful and useful discussion. I'm going to attempt to summarize this discussion and propose some ways forward here. The impetus for this discussion is that PyCXX seems to be not adequately maintained. It is difficult to build matplotlib with "vanilla" PyCXX in ce

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Experiments in removing/replacing PyCXX

2012-12-06 Thread Michael Droettboom
I think this has been a very helpful and useful discussion. I'm going to attempt to summarize this discussion and propose some ways forward here. The impetus for this discussion is that PyCXX seems to be not adequately maintained. It is difficult to build matplotlib with "vanilla" PyCXX in ce