John Hunter wrote: > I'm still learning how to reply-to with my new-fangled gmail. I'm > forwarding this response on to the list.... > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Feb 5, 2007 9:46 AM > Subject: Re: [matplotlib-devel] release? > To: Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On 2/5/07, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It has been quite a while since 0.87.7, and I note that the ubuntu >> feisty upstream version freeze date is Feb. 8. Is it time for a new mpl >> release? If it were done within the next few days, would it get into >> feisty? I acknowledge that I can offer no help with the release >> process, and I don't know what it takes to get a release into >> ubuntu--presumably the debian maintainer has to get it into debian >> first--but I thought I would raise the question anyway. > > I'm severely ham-strung at the moment since my build box died and I > haven't resurrected a new one yet. Charlie has been doing the win32 > builds and may be able to do them for this release. That's the hard > part. Other than that, the main thing that needs to be done is to get > a fresh svn co and build, run backend_driver and memleak_hawaii and > make sure everything looks OK. If you can do that Eric, and Charlie > can do the win32 build, I'm all for it.
OK, I did the fresh co and build and the checking, and I don't see any problems. (There is a deprecation warning in unicode_demo.py--not a show-stopper.) > > I just googled ubuntu matplotlib and got a page pointing to the old > debian 0.82 version. I know that is the main debian package people > are using but is it also the most recent ubuntu version. If so, just > getting them onto 0.87.7 would be a major advance. I thought ubuntu > was better about keeping up with current releases. Edgy appears to be offering 0.87.5, which is not quite so bad. I have no idea what will happen in Feisty, however. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
