Re: [matplotlib-devel] merging sympy plotting stuff with matplotlib

[Fernando P. <fpe...@gm...>]

[ oops, this was meant to be on-list]

Hey Ondrej,

On Jan 4, 2008 12:36 PM, Ondrej Certik <on...@ce...> wrote:

> Hi Fernando!
>
> what you said are valid points for matplotlib using Agg as a backend.
> And as I said,
> the default matplotlib installation should include it, no doubt about that.
>
> On the other hand, I (and I think many other users) only need the super quality
> only when saving the final plot. Of course, if it's worth the pain, I
> can install the agg
> backend and have the quality all the time, but many users will
> sacrifice the quality,
> if they can get at least some plot.
>
> If it was just me, I use Debian, so for me using any C compiled code
> is zero pain. But,
> the majority of users of sympy, are probably windows users. (At least there are
> more downloads of the windows installer, than the mulitplatform tarball). And
> I am not sure compiling anything on windows is a pleasant experience
> (honestly I
> think forcing a user of sympy compiling something on windows is a show stopper).

Indeed, compiled code in a project basically forces you to have a
windows developer in the team who can build the binary installers.
These days with vmware/qemu it's not the end of the world (it can be
done in a normal computer running linux/osx) but it's still a pain for
most of us, no doubt about it.

Again, I was just trying to provide context.  From where I stand, I'm
cheering as hard as I can for you guys to succeed.

Cheers,

f