[SciPy-user] chaco fonts and other issues

[David C. Morrill]

> I just installed the latest tar-ball from the website
> (0.1.0-alpha-5.379) and the setup.py fails with "import error: module
> chaco_version not found". Presumably there's a file missing from this
> distribution. Removing the chaco_version import line and the reference
> later on works around this.

Yes, we'll have to update the build process I suspect. Thanks for pointing
it out.

> I've just upgraded my machine to RH8.0 and now (after recompiling scipy,
> chaco etc.) the wxdemo_plot.py runs but none of the plot labels or
> titles are displayed correctly, irrespective of which font I select (ttf
> or type1). This is the case for the latest chaco version
> (0.1.0-alpha-5.379) and also for a slightly earlier version of 0.1.0.
> Before upgrading to RH8.0, the earlier v0.1.0 seemed to work fine.
> Screenshot of demo attached.

We have a machine running RH 8.0 here. I'll see if I can reproduce the
problem.

> One final problem, I had scipy installed and runnnig OK prior to
> installing chaco. Installed chaco messes up the scipy fastumath module
> and now scipy fails on import with: ImportError: No module named
> fastumath. Re-installing SciPy fixes this.
>
> Besides RH8.0, I'm using python2.2.1, scipy-0.2.0-alpha-102.3553,
> Numeric-22.0

Hmmm...I'll have to look into that. It probably has something to do with the
package structure.

Dave Morrill