[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Calculate 30

[Aleksey Lim]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 09:57:52AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 02:38, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:19:45AM +0200, Reinier Heeres wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I made a new release of Calculate. The most interesting part is that
> >> there is now support for matplotlib (mpl) as a plotting backend,
> >> giving much nicer results! This is not a required dependency; if mpl
> >> is not present Calculate will fall back on it's own built-in
> >> not-so-nice plotting routines. Give it a try:
> >> "plot(sinc(x),x=-4*pi..4*pi)"!
> >
> > I guess we should include matplotlib to SugarPlatform-0.84
> > (seems it doesn't brake distro releases schedules)
> 
> Any idea how big is this added dependency and its own dependencies?

Oops.. I thought about pure python(+pygtk) library and Gentoo confirmed
it(it doesn't install redundant features) but matplotlib has several gui
backends - for gtk qt3 qt4 tk wxwindows. And at least on Mandriva it
requires wxPythonGTK(+82M) - sounds like overmuch for SugarPlatform :(

-- 
Aleksey