[Matplotlib-devel] mplcairo 0.1 release

[Antony Lee]

That's not totally clear to me (I don't actually have an OSX machine
available, although I do get ssh access to a not-so-recent one), but by
"very recent", I mean something that supports C++17 (e.g. std::variant), so
that can't be older than 10.13 (and it's not even certain that that would
work).
(Perhaps looking into static linking is better indeed :-))
Antony

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 9:58 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What version has a late enough libc?   It's not problem at at to
> depend on 10.9, for example.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
>
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 8:51 PM, Antony Lee <anntzer.lee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes please!
> > The issue is essentially that mplcairo depends on a very recent libc++.
> For
> > local builds on machines with recent enough tooling (e.g. from homebrew),
> > that's fine, including on OSX
> > (https://travis-ci.org/anntzer/mplcairo/jobs/406902684 shows that
> mplcairo
> > does work on Travis); the problem is how to ship the new libc++ with the
> > wheels.  On Linux, gcc has -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++ which are
> > basically there exactly for that purpose
> > (https://github.com/anntzer/mplcairo/blob/master/setup.py#L37), but it's
> > unclear to me how to achieve the same on OSX.  Alternatively, if
> > recent-enough OSXes already ship a recent-enough libc++, perhaps we could
> > start with wheels that just target these versions of OSX (not optimal,
> but
> > better than nothing)?
> > Looking forward to your insights,
> > Antony
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 8:52 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Can I help with the macOS wheel build?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Matthew
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 9:52 PM, Antony Lee <anntzer.lee at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > Dear all,
> >> >
> >> > I am pleased to announce the release of mplcairo 0.1
> >> >
> >> > # Description
> >> >
> >> > mplcairo is a Matplotlib backend based on the well-known cairo
> library,
> >> > supporting output to both raster (including interactively) and vector
> >> > formats.  In other words, it provides the functionality of
> Matplotlib's
> >> > {,qt5,gtk3,wx,tk,macos}{agg,cairo}, pdf, ps, and svg backends.
> >> >
> >> > Per Matplotlib's standard API, the backend can be selected by calling
> >> >
> >> >     matplotlib.use("module://mplcairo.qt")
> >> >
> >> > or setting your MPLBACKEND environment variable to
> >> > `module://mplcairo.qt`
> >> > for
> >> > Qt5, and similarly for other toolkits.
> >> >
> >> > The source tarball, and Py3.6 manylinux and Windows wheels, are
> >> > available on
> >> > PyPI (I am looking for help to generate the OSX wheels).
> >> >
> >> > See the README for more details.
> >> >
> >> > # Why a new backend?
> >> >
> >> > Compared to Matplotlib's builtin Agg and cairo backends, mplcairo
> >> > presents
> >> > the
> >> > following features:
> >> >
> >> > - Improved accuracy (e.g., with marker positioning, quad meshes, and
> >> > text
> >> >   kerning).
> >> > - Support for a wider variety of font formats, such as otf and pfb,
> for
> >> > vector
> >> >   (PDF, PS, SVG) backends (Matplotlib's Agg backend also supports such
> >> > fonts).
> >> > - Optional support for complex text layout (right-to-left languages,
> >> > etc.)
> >> >   using Raqm.  **Note** that Raqm depends on Fribidi, which is
> licensed
> >> > under
> >> >   the LGPLv2.1+.
> >> > - Support for embedding URLs in PDF (but not SVG) output (requires
> >> >   cairo≥1.15.4).
> >> > - Support for multi-page output both for PDF and PS (Matplotlib only
> >> > supports
> >> >   multi-page PDF).
> >> > - Support for custom blend modes (see `examples/operators.py`).
> >> >
> >> > See the README for more details.
> >> >
> >> > # Changelog from mplcairo 0.1a1 to mplcairo 0.1
> >> >
> >> > - Integration with libraqm now occurs via dlopen() rather than being
> >> > selected
> >> >   at compile-time.
> >> > - Various rendering and performance improvements.
> >> > - On Travis, we now run Matplotlib's test suite with mplcairo patching
> >> > the
> >> >   default Agg renderer.
> >> >
> >> > Enjoy,
> >> >
> >> > Antony Lee
> >> >
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> >> >
> >
> >
>
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