RE: [matplotlib-devel] pypaint and freetype

[David M. <da...@sj...>]

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> I am doing some work on an agg backend, and would like to include
> freetype support.  I've been looking into borrowing heavily from
> paint's approach.  I remember David that you said you were looking
> into upgrading to freetype 2, and am wondering if you've had any luck
> here, if this looks doable, what the time frame would be etc...

I haven't had a chance yet.  Real job has been very busy, but that should
change soon.  Sorry about the delays.

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> scipy has a freetype 2 wrapper, but it has a lot of scipy dependencies
> built in so it looks like it would take some work to tease them out.
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> On a separate note, I was thinking about doing a matplotlib-0.50 (to
> the wider python-list, scipy-list, etc...) release in the near future,
> but want to wait until pypaint is up.  I see that the sf site now
> exists.  When do you expect to be live?  Will you have some install
> instructions for linux and win32 users?

The site came up late last night (for me).  Today, I'm just going to import
files etc.  I can look at install instructions and so on maybe tomorrow.

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> Thanks,
> JDH
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Sorry about the long waits,

David Moore
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