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Nat Echols  
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 More options Jun 25 2012, 5:41 pm
From: Nat Echols <nathaniel.ech...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:41:16 -0700
Local: Mon, Jun 25 2012 5:41 pm
Subject: Re: [wxPython-users] RFC: matplotlib vs. Chaco

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Robin Dunn <ro...@alldunn.com> wrote:
> * Were there any significant problems that you had to overcome or work
> around?

I have no experience with Chaco.  However, I do have a really big
caveat about matplotlib (which feature-wise is generally excellent)
for deployed apps: the dependence on writing to the user's home
directory frequently causes catastrophic failures.  The problem I've
most often seen is that it caches font locations, and if these
disappear, the library simply crashes instead of ignoring the cache.
I complained about this to the maintainers, and 10 months later, the
1.1 release still did not fix the problem.  They're obviously more
focused on the interactive user than applications programmers (the
documentation reflects this too).

My only other complaint about matplotlib (which may be obsolete now)
is that I found the 3D plotting unusably slow.  I didn't really need
this feature, fortunately.

-Nat


 
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