Now that the transforms branch has merged with the trunk, I'd like to resurrect namespace packages so that toolkits will work again when matplotlib is installed as an egg. As was discussed in a previous thread, all __init__.py files in the toolkit hierarchy must be empty (aside declare_namespace statement). Since lib/matplotlib/__init__.py contains a lot of important stuff, I think the path of least resistance is to move the toolkits out of lib/matplotlib and into a separate directory lib/mpl_toolkits. The semantics of importing a toolkit would have to change from
import matplotlib.toolkits.toolkit to import mpl_toolkit.toolkit. Of course, all the toolkit __init__.py files would need to be emptied. In the case of basemap, this would be changing imports from from matplotlib.toolkits.basemap import Basemap to something like from mpl_toolkits.basemap.api import Basemap All the stuff now imported directly into __init__.py would go in api.py. I've tried this in my local tree and it seems to work fine. Does this sound reasonable? If there's general agreement, I can make the necessary mods in matplotlib trunk and the mplsizer and basemap toolkits. -Jeff -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 Meteorologist FAX : (303)497-6449 NOAA/OAR/PSD R/PSD1 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] 325 Broadway Office : Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-124 Boulder, CO, USA 80303-3328 Web : http://tinyurl.com/5telg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
