Re: [Matplotlib-users] wxmsw26uh_vc.dll

[Werner F. B. <wer...@fr...>]

Hi Charlie,

Charlie Moad wrote:

> ...

> I hope not.  I am guessing that wxPython is like the linux kernel, so
> 2.7 is a dev branch.

Yes, 2.7 is a dev branch which normally lasts for quit some time, 
however this time round they are hoping to move to 2.8 pretty quickly, I 
believe before the end of the year.

>
>>  Is it not possible to have a wxPython nutral build?
>
>
> The native interface was  added for high speed blitting/animation.  A
> while back we talked about and agreed on trying to remove the native
> interfaces for gtk and wxpython to avoid these compilation headaches.
> This was after having decent success with pure python approaches for
> qt3 and qt4.  We are sticking with the unicode wxpython build for the
> remainder of 0.87.x to avoid more confusion.  Ideally 0.88 will have
> the pure python blitting implementations.

That is good news.

Best regards
Werner