[SciPy-user] New implementation for gui_thread

[Pearu Peterson]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Stephen Walton wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 18:39, Pearu Peterson wrote:
> 
> > # update scipy from CVS
> 
> Well, I tried, and now scipy won't build on RedHat 8.  The specific
> error is from SWIG, where I have version 1.1 installed from the RedHat
> provided RPM.  The error message log is attached.
>
> (I may not have noticed before, but has SWIG always been required for a
> build from source?)

Upgrading to swig1.3 fixes the errors. Swig is only required when building 
chaco packages. It would be great if some Swig expert could check if it is 
possible to backport .i files in chaco to Swig version 1.1.

Btw, people who will make a fresh install from the latest scipy may
notice that importing chaco.wxplt will fail. This is related to

  http://www.scipy.net/roundup/scipy/issue100

I have looked into this problem and discovered that Linux port of
chaco is broken more seriously than I would expect. Though the missing 
files can be restored from Attic directories, it seems that chaco
development under Linux is so much behind what has been done under 
Windows. 

And now I am much less enthusiastic in the possibility starting to use 
chaco under linux in short term than before, after the gui_thread 
issue was resolved :-(

Regards,
	Pearu
PS: I'll be mostly off-line for the coming week.