Federico Beffa <be...@ieee.org> skribis:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Federico Beffa <be...@ieee.org> skribis:
>>> Yes, given that the back-end currently used by matploblib doesn't
>>> work, I would change that by using 'Tkinter'.
>>>
>>> Since you are at it, I would also change the default back-end by
>>> changing 'GTK3Agg' to 'TkAgg' in the following snippet:
>>>
>>> (lambda (port)
>>> (format port "[rc_options]~%
>>> backend = GTK3Agg~%")))))
>>
>> OTOH I see that Matploblib already depends on GTK+ 3.x and
>> python-pygobject, so maybe it’s best to stick to GTK+ by default?
>
> Unfortunately, the back-ends based on GTK+ are broken and I didn't
> manage to find how to fix the problem.
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=20888
>
> That's why I'm looking forward to get Tkinter :-)
Could you or someone else test this patch on current master?
Thanks in advance!
Ludo’.
diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm
index 39d0751..76bda96 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/python.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm
@@ -3190,6 +3190,7 @@ transcendental functions).")
`(("python-pyparsing" ,python-pyparsing)
("python-pygobject" ,python-pygobject)
("gobject-introspection" ,gobject-introspection)
+ ("python-tkinter" ,python "tk")
;; The 'gtk+' package (and 'gdk-pixbuf', 'atk' and 'pango' propagated
;; from 'gtk+') provides the required 'typelib' files used by
;; 'gobject-introspection'. The location of these files is set with the
@@ -3244,7 +3245,7 @@ transcendental functions).")
(call-with-output-file "setup.cfg"
(lambda (port)
(format port "[rc_options]~%
-backend = GTK3Agg~%")))))
+backend = TkAgg~%")))))
(alist-cons-after
'install 'install-doc
(lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
