[matplotlib-devel] TkAgg backend issues

[Andrew S. <str...@as...>]

Hi matplotlib developers,

John has rightly directed me to the developers list with the following 
email. So now, after subscribing, I have a couple of suggestions for 
the developer of the TkAgg backend.  (John Miller?)

Begin forwarded message:

> From: John Hunter <jdh...@ac...>
> Date: Tue Mar 9, 2004  2:52:33 AM Australia/Adelaide
> To: Andrew Straw <str...@as...>
> Subject: Re: TkAgg backend issues
>
>>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Straw <str...@as...> writes:
>
>     Andrew> Hi John, A couple more quick notes:
>
>     Andrew> 1) It might be very useful to put the following comment in
>     Andrew> setupext.py in the add_tk_flags section so that idiots
>     Andrew> like me don't build the TkAgg backend against tk8.4, even
>     Andrew> though their Tkinter uses 8.3!
>
>     Andrew>          # Make sure you use the Tk version given by
>     Andrew> Tkinter.TkVersion # or else you'll build for a wrong
>     Andrew> version of the Tcl # interpreter (leading to nasty
>     Andrew> segfaults).
>
>     Andrew> 2) It's pretty clear that a lot of the TkAgg stuff was
>     Andrew> taken directly out of PIL.  Therefore, we need to live up
>     Andrew> to their (not very challenging) license conditions: we
>     Andrew> have to include their copyright notice and their
>     Andrew> permissions as specified in Imaging-1.1.x/README.
>
> Looks right to me.  Could you email this to the devel list.  I don't
> maintain the Tk backend so I'd like Todd and the rest of the stsci
> crew to take the lead here.
>
> If it's alright with you, matplotlib-devel is the best place for
> patches, comments, etc..., since sometimes other people are working on
> similar problems and would like to avail themselves of your work and
> comments.
>
> Thanks!
> JDH
>