[Matplotlib-devel] [Wheel-builders] Manylinux external library test case - matplotlib, tk

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Olivier Grisel
<olivier.grisel at ensta.org> wrote:
> 2016-04-25 21:19 GMT+02:00 Benjamin Root <ben.v.root at gmail.com>:
>> What would be better is if we can get rid of the compilation requirement,
>> but from Michael's comments in the past, it seems that this isn't possible
>> at the moment. The problem is that the compiled portion provides the image
>> buffer access, which seems to not be available at the python level. Perhaps
>> it might make sense to pursue submitting our code to the Tk/Tcl project so
>> that we might be able to drop this step at some point?
>
> Wouldn't it be possible to rewrite this part using ctypes instead?

I had the same thought - has anyone looked into that?

Thanks,

Matthew