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Here is a beta release of matplotlib-0.53. You'll need to update your
.matplotlibrc files with the one in the included version since a lot
has been added and some things have been changed.
There is still a bug in the date conversion module but I'm working on
it. Everything else looks pretty good from my end. New features you
may want to test
 - font family support - you can flush ttfquery and FontTools; see
 the new matplotlibrc file in the src dist for details
 - wxagg
 - major and minor ticks; see examples/major_minor*; see module docs
 for details
 - date plots (with a small tick location bug) examples/date*; ; see
 module docs for details
 - image module for numarray and PS
 - multiple scales on same axes - examples/two_scales.py
Win32 and OS X testers especially needed....
 http://matplotlib.sf.net/matplotlib-0.53b.tar.gz
 http://matplotlib.sf.net/matplotlib-0.53b.zip
 http://matplotlib.sf.net/matplotlib-0.53b.win32-py2.3.exe
JDH

>>>>> "John" == John Hunter <jdh...@ac...> writes:
 John> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=7777103
This is just the usual sourceforge flakiness. This was a link to
Daishi's post "Some notes on building from CVS" which was archived a
few days ago, but now the sf archiver only has messages from April 1st
and before. 
JDH

Just as a bit more info to John's post, I believe that Tk requires the 
X11 headers, even if X11 is not to be used (as in the Aqua case). So 
don't worry that it asks for it. It's just a weird build dependency 
that shouldn't be there...
Also, John, WRT the link your gave, SourceForge says: "Message Not 
Found. This message does not (any longer) exist."
Cheers!
Andrew
On Apr 17, 2004, at 10:28 AM, John Hunter wrote:
>>>>>> "Kenneth" == Kenneth McDonald <kmm...@wi...> writes:
>
> Kenneth> I believe this is the right list, since the question
> Kenneth> deals with compiling, rather than using, matplotlib.
> Kenneth> Hope that's OK.
>
> Fine by me...
>
> Kenneth> I just dl'ed, and after setting the TkAgg flag to 1 in
> Kenneth> setup.py, did a python setup.py install. (Note that I had
> Kenneth> done a previous install without the TkAgg flag set.) On
> Kenneth> my system, this is producing a bunch of errors related to
> Kenneth> the Tk headers:
>
> Generally only the first error message from the compiler is
> informative. Subsequent ones often indicate a downstream component
> that failed after the first failed. In your case, the 1st error is
>
> In file included from src/_tkagg.cpp:18:
> /Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Headers/tk.h:96:29: X11/Xlib.h: No
> such file or directory
>
> So it looks to me that either you haven't installed X11 (which is the
> default config on OS X) or it's not in your include path. If you
> haven't installed X11 for OS X, see
> http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/x11.
>
> After you get past this hurdle, you might encounter another road block
> or two, especially if you are a fink user. In that case, you may want
> to edit setupext.py and replace the dictionary entry
>
> 'darwin' : '/usr/local',
>
> with
>
> 'darwin' : '/sw',
>
> and check out this post
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=7777103
>
> Good luck!
> JDH
>
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I overhauled the tick locator and formating in matplotlib CVS. This
provides a lot of nice features, like easily setting major and minor
ticks on multiples of some number, auto locators that pick good ranges
and tick locations dynamically during navigation, a bevy of datetime
tick locators and formatters. If major and minor tick locators are
present, only the major tick locator is used for axis autoranging.
For tick formatting, you can use autoformatting (the default), fixed
tick labels, sprintf format strings, user defined functions, strftime
date format strings or custom classes. This is described in detail in
the matplotlib.dates and matplotlib.ticker module documentation in
CVS.
Perry had mentioned that his group was very interested in some custom
major and minor tick locators and formatters of interest to
astronomers. So if you want to start adding these (or anyone else who
wants to add some useful ones for their application domain), please
check them into CVS or send them to the list.
The new examples major_minor_demo*.py and date_demo*.py show how to
use the new classes.
JDH

I'm using Python/Tkinter under OS X, but with the Aqua version of Tcl/Tk
rather than with the X11 version. Unfortunately, I can't get 
matplotlib's
installation to complete correctly with tkagg turned on; it gets to
a certain point in the compile and then says:
In file included from src/ft2font.c:1:
src/ft2font.h:7:22: ft2build.h: No such file or directory
src/ft2font.h:8:10: #include expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME>
src/ft2font.h:9:10: #include expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME>
In file included from src/ft2font.c:1:
src/ft2font.h:28: error: parse error before "FT_Face"
src/ft2font.h:28: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
....
The named file is part of the freetype package, which I installed via 
Fink.
Unfortunately, I don't know if this is due to the fact that matplotlib
expects an X11 environment, library/path problems, or something
else.
Anyone else have matplotlib/tkagg working under TckTkAqua? If
so, any hints?
Thanks,
Ken