On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 03:56, Дмитрий Ледков <dmitrij.led...@gmail.com> wrote: > An auto backend support within matplotlib would be great. I'll try to > find bug tracker for matplotlib and see if there is a request already > for this, if not I'll file one and help to add code to support that.
it's on their SF website[1] even if -devel (or -user sometimes) mailing-list is much more used than tracker. [1] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=80706 > I think that it will be possible to write a post install script which > will do the following: > > 1) check dependencies for all possible backends > 2) Ignore backends for which dependencies are missing > 3) Out of the working backends pick the pretties one > 4) modify /etc/matplotlibrc to default to one that is installed what if install-time is weeks before the usage, so that packages gets installed and removed in between? > By bash-foo is not perfect but I will work on this in the next week or > so. So for now I'll assign this bug to myself. If I succeed I'll work > with debian packaging team to incorporate it =D The best (only real?) solution is to let upstream provide an "auto" mode, like they already said they're working on it. Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- Missing package dependency https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301007 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
