Bug 1309744

Summary:	Provide a matplotlib wx backend
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Enrique <cquike>
Component:	python-matplotlib	Assignee:	John Kacur <jkacur>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
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Version:	7.2	CC:	bhu, extras-orphan, jkacur, jkastner, jspaleta
Target Milestone:	pre-dev-freeze	Keywords:	FutureFeature
Target Release:	7.4
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Last Closed:	2017-01-31 15:15:43 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Enrique 2016-02-18 15:20:45 UTC

Description of problem:

 Up to RHEL 6.x the wx backend for matplotlib was included in the python-matplotlib package, but as of RHEL 7.x the backends are in separate packages, similar to the Fedora packages. However, RHEL 7.x doesn't provide the wx backend. It would be very useful if the wx backend is provided at least in EPEL, in order to have a similar experience as in Fedora.

Comment 1 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2016-06-23 09:35:29 UTC

Unfortunately, the python-matplotlib package is part of the base OS (RHEL/CentOS) in EPEL7 branch, so this should rather be filed against RHEL as an enhancement request.

Comment 2 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2016-06-23 09:37:50 UTC

Alternatively, you can submit a python[23]-matplotlib-wx package that tracks the RHEL package and only provides the wx backend in EPEL7.

Comment 4 Enrique 2016-11-15 09:36:14 UTC

 Hi,

 since I sent the bug report we had to create our own RPM to support the distribution of our software. I have based the RPM on the spec of matplotlib that generates the other backends, and removing things which are not necessary. The source RPM can be found here:
ftp://ftp.eso.org/pub/dfs/pipelines/repositories/testing/sl/7x/src/python-matplotlib-wx/python-matplotlib-wx-1.2.0-2.el7.src.rpm

 It would be very useful indeed if EPEL includes an RPM inspired by this one in their repos.

Comment 5 John Kacur 2016-12-14 14:29:10 UTC

I noticed that you have BuildRequires:  wxPython-devel
which is not available in RHEL 7.x, are you getting that from elsewhere?

Comment 6 John Kacur 2016-12-14 14:37:02 UTC

ah, I see that's in EPEL

Comment 7 John Kacur 2017-01-31 15:15:43 UTC

I agree with the customer that it would be useful if this were provided in EPEL, I will see how to go about doing that. We are unfortunately not able to provide it in rhel-7.x at this time.