[Matplotlib-devel] mpl_cairo manylinux wheel available

[Antony Lee]

Hi,

I looked into compiling on Windows yesterday and it appears that MSVC does
not support yet all the required C++17 features (at least, guaranteed copy
elision and template argument deduction for class templates -- see
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2017/08/11/c17-features-and-stl-fixes-in-vs-2017-15-3/).
>From some quick googling, it is apparently expected that full support will
happen "soon" (before the end of 2017) so I may decide to just wait for it
rather than downgrade the code (depending on how much time I want to spend
on this...) but as a consequence, tinkering with mplcairo on Windows would
right now require not only good familiarity with how to compile extension
modules on Windows, but also with C++ to understand how to downgrade the
code, so overall it may be quite tricky for you.

Wx support would require refactoring the wx backend code so that the
rendering part gets strictly decoupled from the windowing part -- this is
e.g. the purpose of PR#8771 that does the same for Qt.  Actually, given
that Wx already supports both "native" Wx rendering and Agg rendering, I
expect this to be "relatively" easy, as the separation already mostly
exists (basically we need to replace mentions of Agg by cairo in
backend_wxagg.py).  As always, PRs would be welcome.

Antony

2017-09-18 2:06 GMT-07:00 Francesco Faccenda <f.faccenda86 at gmail.com>:

> This is a good news, thank you. I have two main doubts now:
>
>    1. Would it be hard to have a Windows version of it? Since I am quite
>    new to this, I'm not sure how to do it myself. Is there a good tutorial you
>    would suggest?
>    2. Would it work with matplotlib embedded on a wxpython stage or I'm
>    going to run in some issue if I use this backend?
>
>
> Regards,
> Francesco Faccenda
>
>
> 2017-09-16 11:10 GMT+02:00 Antony Lee <anntzer.lee at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi all,
>> A manylinux wheel for mpl_cairo (https://github.com/anntzer/mpl_cairo)
>> is now available (under GitHub releases).  mpl_cairo is a new, cairo-based
>> backend for Matplotlib, that offers several improvements over the current
>> default, Agg-based backend.  See the README on GitHub for more details :-)
>> I would be interested in hearing your feedback.
>> Antony
>>
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