From: Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...> - 2011-02-26 00:04:11
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On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Paul Ivanov <piv...@gm...> wrote: > Fernando Garcia Bermudez, on 2011-02-03 09:14, wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 06:05, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> > wrote: > > > On 02/03/2011 07:48 AM, Darren Dale wrote: > > >> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Fernando Garcia Bermudez > > >> <mo...@gm...> wrote: > > >> > > >>> Before continuing the debug process, though, I wanted to check with > > >>> someone knowledgeable of this branch regarding its current status. Is > > >>> it possible to compile matplotlib on python3? > > >>> > > >> Mike D. did some initial work for py3 support a while back. I don't > > >> know what platform he was working on, but he was able to produce a > > >> simple plot, maybe running the simple_plot demo. > > >> > > > I was working on Linux (RHEL5), and never got past that platform. > > > > I'll stay on the lookout for the github py3k branch and will do as > > suggested. Thanks for the update. > > > > By the way, there was a recent poll on python.org for packages > where users desire Python 3 support. > > Here are the top 10: > > Votes | Package > ------+-------- > 837 | Django > 454 | wxPython > 406 | scipy > 364 | matplotlib > 327 | PIL > 266 | py2exe > 185 | Twisted > 179 | PyGTK > 135 | Pygame > 94 | web2py > > http://python.org/3kpoll > > best, > -- > Paul Ivanov > 314 address only used for lists, off-list direct email at: > http://pirsquared.org | GPG/PGP key id: 0x0F3E28F7 > Which just goes to show that some people don't understand dependencies... (PIL and PyGTK are needed by matplotllib to be fully py3k compatible). Hopefully this will light a fire for them as well. Ben Root |