Re: [matplotlib-devel] Build without using the bundled agg24 library

2008-08-22 Thread Michael Droettboom
I agree with Darren. In my previous response, I was assuming Agg-2.4 would be the requirement in Debian. If you are planning to link to a different version, licensing may be an issue (I can't really comment on that as IANAL), but there's a high likelihood of compatibility issues. The upgrade

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Build without using the bundled agg24 library

2008-08-22 Thread Michael Droettboom
As you sort of allude to, Agg is so heavily templatized that there's little benefit to linking against a shared library (little disk space savings, for instance). However, there are some .cpp (i.e. non-header files) that need to be compiled and linked. If Debian doesn't include a shared librar

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Build without using the bundled agg24 library

2008-08-21 Thread Darren Dale
On Thursday 21 August 2008 19:15:49 Sandro Tosi wrote: > Hello, > I'm currently trying to study if it's possible to remove the bundled > agg library and use the one available in Debian instead. > > Currently (and sadly) we have only a -dev package (that contains only > the development stuff) and no