[matplotlib-devel] font problems: fc-list takes up 100% of CPU and runs forever

2013-10-01 Thread Russell E. Owen
I distribute a Mac application using matplotlib. Recent versions that use matplotlib 1.3.0 fail to run on some new accounts. The symptoms are that the application never finishes loading and a task named "fc-list" takes up 100% of a core -- for as long as we've let it run (a good fraction of an

Re: [matplotlib-devel] warnings, bugs with GTK backends

2013-10-01 Thread Federico Ariza
Hello I don't know why it is failing with the macports... not much help about that from me ;) If I make it fail on pourpuse, for example adding and unwanted int third argument in the plot call import matplotlib matplotlib.use('gtk3agg') from numpy import * from matplotlib.pyplot import * x = ara

[matplotlib-devel] warnings, bugs with GTK backends

2013-10-01 Thread Michael Kaufman
Hello all, I just upgraded my matplotlib and gtk distributions because I thought I'd try the GTK3Agg backend (I had been using the GTKAgg backend). I'm using macports for the supporting libraries with git repositories for ipython and matplotlib (today's master [0b8481977016e8f], but I seem to