Re: [Matplotlib-users] Can't run matplotlib without "tk" backend on windows?

[Francesco P. <cez...@gm...>]

2008/1/9, Darren Dale <dar...@co...>:
>
> setup.py attempts to select the appropriate backend for you, based on what
> backends were available at build time. That selection is written into the
> default matplotlibrc file, which resides in
> site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data. If matplotlib finds another matplotlibrc
> file (for example, in the current working directory, in $HOME/.matplotlib,
> etc), then it will use those settings instead. I would guess that is the
> source of the problem.
>

No, the problem is the default installed matplotlibrc, that is not
different from the one present in the source tree and has the default
selection:

backend      : TkAgg

Now, i don't know if the build script is trying to modify it according
user selection or compile-time backend detection, but I'm wondering
why the same problem wasn't happening on linux, where I tipically
never install Tk runtime.

However, for me the problem is solved, but if there's a matplotlib
windows dev listening, here is my experience; first, i removed the
already installed "lib/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc"
. Afer, I went for clean compiling with a setup.cfg with these
configurations:

gtk = True
gtkagg = False
tkagg = False
wxagg = False
backend = GTK

Eventually, "python setup.py install" write again a
"site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc" which still have:

backend      : TkAgg

If this shouldn't happen, well, consider this a bug report :D

Greetings,
Francesco Pretto