John Hunter wrote: > Sandro has been working hard packaging matplotlib 0.98.0 for debian > ahead of the next major debian feature freeze, and says he can get > 0.98.1 in if we release it by June 24th. Charlie, can you do a > release on Monday? All developers, please take some time to fix any > bugs you are aware of and let's release 0.91.4 and 0.98.1 on Monday > pending Charlie's availability. These major debian releases only > happen once every couple of years so we want to get good versions in. > > JDH
It is probably too late for this upcoming release, but I would like to raise a relevant question for discussion: Can and should we rearrange the code, or install warnings and documentation, to make it absolutely clear what is supported and what is not? Ideally, if someone installs 0.98.x from any distribution, or from the tarball, the user should be able to expect *everything* to work, including all backends, examples, and plotting-related classes. The simplest way to deal with this would be to leave everything where it is, if there is any hope that it will ever be fixed and maintained, but to put a warnings.warn and a docstring comment in any module or example that does not currently work. That way, if someone imports axes3d, they would (or at least might, unless it goes by too fast) see the warning and know that if they want it to work, they will simply have to take on its maintenance. A second step would be to have one or more separate subdirectories to separate the maintained from the unmaintained. Doing this in a nice, consistent, easy-to-use way would take a little more work. For example, one would want to make it very easy for someone to restore a backend from broken and segregated to fully operational and available. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
