Comment 3 for bug 301007

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 03:56, Дмитрий Ледков <email address hidden> wrote:
> An auto backend support within matplotlib would be great. I'll try to
> find bug tracker for matplotlib and see if there is a request already
> for this, if not I'll file one and help to add code to support that.

it's on their SF website[1] even if -devel (or -user sometimes)
mailing-list is much more used than tracker.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=80706

> I think that it will be possible to write a post install script which
> will do the following:
>
> 1) check dependencies for all possible backends
> 2) Ignore backends for which dependencies are missing
> 3) Out of the working backends pick the pretties one
> 4) modify /etc/matplotlibrc to default to one that is installed

what if install-time is weeks before the usage, so that packages gets
installed and removed in between?

> By bash-foo is not perfect but I will work on this in the next week or
> so. So for now I'll assign this bug to myself. If I succeed I'll work
> with debian packaging team to incorporate it =D

The best (only real?) solution is to let upstream provide an "auto"
mode, like they already said they're working on it.

Regards,
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