Eric, On Apr 12, 2007, at 12:16 AM, Eric Firing wrote:
> belinda thom wrote: >> Thanks Eric! >> I'm kind of afraid to upgrade to the SVN version b/c I fear >> something else might break (I've yet to install matplotlib from >> source b/c of a few nagging Mac OS X issues). >> What would you recommend? > > I don't know; I see from your earlier message that Tim Leslie says > some of the things you are trying to do are still broken, and his > patches are what John committed, so svn is certainly no better than > what Tim is working with now. Ick. I hadn't noticed the version he was using. Should I file a bug report? and if so, where? > I don't think that anything has changed since 0.90 in such a way as > to require changing both the compiled parts and the pure python > parts, so you could try simply replacing t This was the info that I was missing in order to understand how to proceed. Not sure how I'd replace "just the python part" --- presumably something manual? But I'm glad to hear this is a possible option. > There's also the issue of having to upgrade student machines for > which I'm not admin. Grrr. > That certainly makes the prospect of doing any kind of upgrade less attractive. I don't have a good solution. Me neither :-). I will try and get permission to upgrade axis.py w/my quick fix commenting out the kwargs in line 2131 of axes.py, as this is the quick option and I need something ASAP. You seem to know quite a bit about matplotlib. If you have any idea what this hack might break, I'd appreciate your insight so I know what to be wary of. Thx, --b ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
