[NumExp-discuss] gnumexp devel status report

[Gustavo J. A. M. C. <gj...@in...>]

  Just a little status report on gnumexp... :-)

  Since almost a week ago gnumexp (in my bzr branch, not in sourceforge)
is in the following state:

   - Uses gtk.UIManager instead of bonobo.ui for menus and toolbars;  It
still uses gnome.ui for option parsing and gnomevfs, so it still depends
on gnome-python.  I'll probably make gnome-python dependency optional
when I have nothing more interesting to do :P
   - The console runs and works like before, though xygraph doesn't;
   - console help now uses a cairo-based renderer, and embeds widgets
instead of pixbufs [1] =3D> no more libnxplot dependency;
   - gnumexp now includes its own copy of pymathml =3D> no more pymathml
dep;
   - gnumexp now includes its own private copy of the mathml 2.0 2nd
edition DTD, which is registered in runtime for gnumexp use only =3D> no
more mathml DTD dep;
   - There's a new dependency on gnome-doc-utils; however, this is a
standard GNOME dependency now, so should cause no problems.

  Next step is to port xygraph over to use cairo.  I'm planning to use
goocanvas, so I'll take a detour to help finish goocanvas python
bindings.  When it's ready, I'll probably put goocanvas plus python
bindings inside gnumexp, to avoid external dependencies.  Anyway, a lot
of work is ahead of me. :P

  Cheers.

[1] regretably, that is a bit slower, maybe later i'll switch back to
pixbufs if a suitable cairo.ImageSurface -> gdk.Pixbuf API becomes
available.

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Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
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