[Python-modules-team] Bug#936745: reducing matplotlib2 build-depends.

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Hi Sandro!

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 09:10:49PM -0500, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> well, i dont think it's a good reason to just stop testing complex
> software tho. some of those dependencies are required so that mpl can
> build extensions (in particular for the GUI backends) so if you remove
> them, the mpl build system is smart enough to disable those
> extensions, resulting in a graphic library without any GUI bindings to
> work with. that doesnt sound ideal.

That is a valid point. But please drop at least the PyQt4 GUI binding.

That one is clearly not needed when PyQt5 binding exists.

> I'm gonna go thru some of the dependencies and will see if i can
> remove some, in particular now that i've remored the -doc package from
> the git repo, but i'm not gonna get rid the whole unittest suite.
>
> thanks for your work on this, and to nudge me into looking deeper at mpl2
> deps

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Dmitry Shachnev
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