[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Calculate 30

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 13:32, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> 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

Yeah, I guess it can get into SP-0.86 and just make sure for now that
Soas and other distros where we have more control have matplotlib in.

Thanks,

Tomeu