Given the slow pace of development on PyCXX, I know it has been the
desire of some here to remove our dependency on it.
I thought a helpful starting point to evaluate the alternatives would be
to restructure one of our extensions to not use PyCXX anymore. I've
taken the PNG extension, which is
Hi,
The Mac OS X backend is entirely written in C (with some Objective-C elements
where necessary). AFAICT, this is the largest C/C++ code in matplotlib. This
backend was written from scratch without using Cython, SWIG, or Boost.Python.
From my experience, I would prefer to write such extension
