On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:31:03PM -0500, John Hunter wrote: > On 7/16/07, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Are any real, live projects outside of enthought making major use of > > traits? Or would we be the first? > I am happy to be the first at this point -- enthought has done a lot > to support traits. Traits has one of the most impressive pieces of > technical documentation in the scientific python community. The > enthought mailing list has become quite active of late, and they are > clearly supporting their OS code. They actively promote their product > and want a large user community -- we can provide synergy there. It > has lived in our src tree for over a year and still "just compiles". > In fact, I am amenable too, though not committed to, requiring > traits as an *external* package rather than an included package, both > to encourage users into the ETS suite and to encourage enthought to > support us via their traits package. I'd be happy to hear from > enthought here on their preferences. With the whole Numeric, numarray > and numpy thing behind us, I'm looking for a whole new set of > compilation issues to tackle :-) I am very happy to hear this. I have been using traits for lab work, and it has been an absolute pleasure (ask Fernando, he has heard me express my satisfaction over and over). I have converted a friend, here, in France to traits for some software his company is developing, and every body has been amazed at the results. Traits come with added benefits than validation: * Traits handlers, they allow nice event driven programming in a light way. Think of it this way: you have a mappable artist, its colormap is a traits, you have a handler triggered when you change this colormap that automatically redraw the axes. If you use this pattern heavily, the drawing package becomes much nicer to use we integrating in an interactive program. * TraitsUI. Once everything is traited, and each artist has its properties discribed by traits, you edit these properties graphically, traits can create automatically dialogs for them (see http://code.enthought.com/traits/ for an example with screenshots). Now this is Wx only, so far, so it would be very limited. However graphical edition of figures and artists is a feature my colleagues ask often, and having traits would make it one step closer. My 2 cents, Gaël ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
