On Wednesday 31 October 2007 12:07:12 pm Gael Varoquaux wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 11:49:24AM -0400, Darren Dale wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 12:05:25PM -1000, Eric Firing wrote: > > >> When I go to the enthought web site, the most recent traits release I > > >> see is 1.1, from August 2006. That doesn't make me optimistic about > > >> traits as an external dependency any time soon. > > > > > > That's because the website is unmaintained. There have been two > > > releases lately. One during scipy, and one mainly bug fix and small > > > improvements, last week. > > > > > > This shows that enthought is really bad at communicating there work, > > > something that I have come to realize, and that is a major prolblem. > > > > > > The software it self is pretty good, it just lacks packaging (I have > > > more and more doubts about eggs), good release plans, and testing with > > > different uses than enthought's. > > > > During the last Scipy conference, Fernando Perez and (I think) Dave > > Peterson tracked down the source of a performance hit when we use our new > > config package, which uses traits. They determined it was an issue with > > setuptools. Do you know what is enthought's current thinking about using > > setuptools? > > Their official thinking is to stick to it, and to improve it. But I have > started release tarball that require setuptools only to build, but not at > run-time. They are being used to package traits, traitsUI and mayavi2 in > Debian. I would be happy to guive more info about that, but I am > currently travelling, and my internet access is very poor. > > Beta versions of tarballs are on > http://code.enthought.com/downloads/source . I will make cleaner tarballs > of the release that was done last week when I get back home. These > tarballscan be used for eg packaging, or integrating the dependency, as > Fernando does in ipython.
This is just what we are looking for. Please let me know when the new tarballs are available. Darren ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
