[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Calculate 30

[Aleksey Lim]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:43:05PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> 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?

I've creted a bug for Mandriva
but I guess its a bit late for SP-0.84

-- 
Aleksey