RE: [Matplotlib-users] another pango font error

[Perry G. <pe...@st...>]

John Hunter wrote:
> 
> At this time the proliferation of backends was beginning to become a
> maintenance hassle, and Perry Greenfield had a bright idea: another
> backend!  But not just any old backend, the mother of all backends,
> that could be used not only for pure image generation but used to
> render directly into the GUI canvases.  GTK and WX use native GUI
> drawing code to render the figure, so we not only need to support not
> only all the widget-set related stuff, but all the drawing stuff as
> well.
> 
Well, it wasn't really my idea. Eric Jones adopted this approach
for Chaco and it seemed like a good way of adding lots of functionality 
and removing gui plotting depenencies. So I basically passed the 
idea along.
>
Perry