matplotlib-0.90.1 no longer builds _wxagg.so

Hi all,

I've build matplotlib but there is no matplotlib/backends/_wxagg.so.

Even without that file matplotlib works fine with the WX backend and
pycrust.

What is that file good for?
Is it required to run matplotlib properly (maybe in other use cases)?

I'm working on openSUSE 10.2 on x86_64.

Regards
Werner

_wxagg.so is a piece of extension code we used to efficiently transfer
portions of the agg canvas to the wx canvas. Starting with wxpython
2.8, it became possible to do this with pure python using python
buffer objects, so we turned it off by default. If you are using
wxpython 2.6, and need this functionality, eg for some of the
matplotlib widgets or animation techniques described at

http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Animations

simply set BUILD_WXAGG=1 in setup..py and rebuild mpl.

JDH

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On 6/3/07, Werner Hoch <werner.ho@...380...> wrote:

Hi all,

I've build matplotlib but there is no matplotlib/backends/_wxagg.so.

Even without that file matplotlib works fine with the WX backend and
pycrust.

What is that file good for?
Is it required to run matplotlib properly (maybe in other use cases)?

I'm working on openSUSE 10.2 on x86_64.