On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Sandro Tosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My plan (as one of maintainers of matplotlib in Debian) is to keep > uploading 0.91.x in unstable, so it can migrate to testing (the > staging area to prepare the next stable release) when needed, and > prepare the 0.98.x package into experimental. I need this since 0.98 > introduced API changes, and I need to let depending packages check if > they are compatible with this new version (if not, adapting them) > before uploading to unstable and break things. > > Since numpy in unstable is already at 1.1.0 (scheduled to be migrated > in testing in few days), I try my best to have 0.98.x in unstable > asap, so to let lenny (the upcoming stable release) ship 0.98.x! Hi Sandro, thanks for writing and all the work packaging matplotlib for debian. Just to be clear on the API changes: every release of matplotlib pretty much has some API changes which are documented in the API_CHANGES file). They are usually quite minor, and 95% of our users interact with matplotlib through the pylab/pyplot interface, which is *extremely* stable, and pretty much hasn't changed since 0.1 and probably will never change much. The changes affect folks who use the matplotlib API directly, which are probably 5% of our users, who are almost by definition the power users. 0.98 introduced significantly more API changes (and features) than a typical major release (hence the big bump in version number) but nonetheless these have a very minor user facing impact. We have nearly 100 figure generating tests in our regression suite and all of them are passing. The major changes to the API occur for people manipulating transformations directly, which is almost noone. We are certainly discovering and fixing issues now that we are getting some users on it with the 0.98.0 release, but the majority of these are not API issues, but plain-ol-bugs or backend version issues, etc... We are trying to get a bug fix release out ASAP to address these, but we want to balance getting as many bug reports in before we do this since none of the bugs reported thus far have been critical. Thanks again, JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
