It appears that the 98.5.2 tarball is missing one file for the native Mac OS X backend: src/_macosx.m is missing. The other file (lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_macosx.py) is present.
--Michiel.
--- On Thu, 12/18/08, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:
> From: John Hunter <jd...@gm...>
> Subject: [matplotlib-devel] 98.5.2 tarball and OS X binaries up
> To: "matplotlib development list" <mat...@li...>
> Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008, 12:26 PM
> Just wanted to let you know that I posted the 0.98.5.2
> tarball and OS
> X binaries at
>
> https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80706&package_id=278194&release_id=646644
>
> I'm going to hold off an announcement to the users list
> until Charlie
> gets the win32 binaries up.
>
> JDH
>
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