[Matplotlib-devel] mpl_cairo manylinux wheel available

[Antony Lee]

(or actually, in the last case, you can just install with pip install
--no-deps, which will also bypass the version check).
Antony

2017-09-17 13:20 GMT-07:00 Antony Lee <antony.lee at berkeley.edu>:

> Yes, you can use this without conda (I usually don't use conda, it's just
> an easy way for me to make sure people can install pycairo...).
>
> There are two possibilites: compile the package yourself, or use the wheel
> available under github releases.  In either case you need to install
> Matplotlib with PR#8771 (so I'd suggest doing this in a venv); there are
> (fairly standard) instructions for this in the README or in Matplotlib's
> devdocs.  Assuming that you have installed the patched Matplotlib, you can
> now do one of the following:
>
> 1. Compile the package yourself
>
> According to pkgs.org,
>   - g++ 7.1 is available in Fedora 26.
>   - pycairo>=1.12 ("python3-cairo") is only available in Fedora Rawhide
> (Fedora 26 has pycairo 1.10).
>
> If you can install these dependencies, you should be able to just do the
> standard `pip install .` or `pip install -e .` (in the same environment as
> the patched Matplotlib) and you're good to go.
>
> If you're stuck on Fedora 26, it looks like that version has cairo 1.14
> (which is what we *really* care about).  So you should be able to get away
> with installing the latest pycairo and cairo (1.14), and manually removing
> the dependency on pycairo>=1.12 in mpl_cairo's setup.py.
>
> 2. Use the compiled wheel.
>
> Basically everything under the "Installation (Linux only)" example still
> applies -- just replace the invocation of conda with your dnf (and the
> appropriate package names).  However in that case you will not be able to
> edit the dependency in the wheel (which, again, requires pycairo>=1.12).
> Let me know if this is the case, if so then I will build a wheel with a
> lower dependency bound.
>
> Antony
>
> 2017-09-17 8:26 GMT-07:00 Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>:
>
>> Matthew Brett wrote:
>>
>> > On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 10:10 AM, Antony Lee
>> > <anntzer.lee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >> A manylinux wheel for mpl_cairo (https://github.com/anntzer/mpl_cairo)
>> is
>> >> now available (under GitHub releases).  mpl_cairo is a new, cairo-based
>> >> backend for Matplotlib, that offers several improvements over the
>> current
>> >> default, Agg-based backend.  See the README on GitHub for more details
>> >> :-) I would be interested in hearing your feedback.
>> >
>> > Nice!  Any plans for an OSX build?  Or are they hard?
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Matthew
>> I'm interested in trying this on Fedora linux - but I don't want to use
>> anaconda.  Any suggestions?
>>
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