2010/12/10 Christopher Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov>: > On 12/9/10 11:57 PM, Ludwig Schwardt wrote: >> This patch reminded me to ask why the builtin libpng, zlib and >> libfreetype on Mac OS 10.5 and later are not used to build Matplotlib, > > It may be because we still want to support OS-X 10.4 .
I was not aware of the presence of libfreetype so far. I'm +1 on using the libraries shipped with OS X. It should be possible to deliver an extra package which just installs these libs on 10.4 (in /usr/local/). But, I don't know when and if I'll finally find the "time" to look into it definitely. Anyway, this all would apply only to persons who build from source on OS X, right? The binaries still have to use static linkage, or am I wrong? > Also, not everyone has X11 installed (or does everyone now?) One can opt X11 out at installation time IIRC. But it's a rare case I believe. > I also notice that they are in: MacOSX10.4u.sdk (under X11) -- so maybe > the static libs in there could be used. This is a question to Russell it seems to me. Friedrich ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
