[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Calculate 30

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:32, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:09:04AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 00:32, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
>> > On 23 Apr 2009, at 22:47, Reinier Heeres wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Are those things not mostly already present? Even on my XO with 767
>> >> (F9), installing matplotlib 0.91.4-1.fc9 only drags in python-dateutil
>> >> and pytz for a total download of 4.7MB. From a quick inspection I
>> >> can't find any new dependencies (except for dejavu-sans-fonts (F11) or
>> >> dejavu-fonts (F10)). Also, perhaps many of those things would be
>> >> interesting to ship anyway (like numpy).
>> >
>> > FWIW: I think numpy is already in (replaced numeric if I remember).
>> >
>> >> I don't have a running SoaS, but I think it would be useful to see how
>> >> many new things are actually pulled in by installing this. Could
>> >> anybody do this?
>> >
>> > Just yum installed python-matplotlib on Soas-beta:
>> >
>> >        python-matplotlib 4Mb
>> >        dejavu-fonts-common 61k
>> >        dejavu-sans-fonts 2.4Mb
>> >        fontpackages-filesystem 6.2k
>> >        python-dateutil 249k
>> >        pytz 37k
>> >
>> >        Total 6.8M
>> >
>> > Not too painful I think.
>>
>> Yeah, and python-matplotlib has great educational value so I guess
>> makes a lot of sense to add to the Sugar platform. Aleksey, what do
>> you think?
>
> Agree about python-matplotlib but it has several gui backends
> and distributions are free to link python-matplotlib to some/most/all of
> them. I think its not a good idea to link SugarPlatform to qt/wx/tk.
>
> Anyway distros are free to add it to SP package - for example
> SoaS (moreover it seems that matplotlib package from fedora requires only
> gtk backend)

True, maybe we should enter tickets for the distros that bundle all
backends together?

Tomeu