On 2009-05-18 19:07, Andrew Straw wrote: > I've been hacking away at adding support for "dropped spines" to MPL > (e.g. http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/full/211/3/341/FIG7 ) and > have come to the conclusion that there is a fundamental issue in the > code base that the traits package has solved -- many values that depend > on other values with complicated stuff that happens when one of the > parent values changes. For example, the location of the text from the > xaxis depends on the padding value in addition to the xaxis location. > Now I'm trying to add another element to the mix -- namely an axis spine > that can change location -- and things are going to spiral into a > (further) collection of special-cased updates unless there's some > reworking of the infrastructure. > > So, the question is, should I attempt to use traits for this? I guess > that I won't have the time to re-write the entire code base to use > traits, but I'd like make a stab a stab at dropped spine support with > the knowledge that, should I be successful, there's at least a chance we > would again ship traits with MPL. I imagine we could incrementally move > more and more to traits if I'm successful, particularly now that we have > the beginnings of a unit test infrastructure (thanks James!).
If you do, *please* either depend on Traits or, if you must include the code in matplotlib itself, stick it under matplotlib's namespace. I really don't want to go back to having to fix people's broken installations again. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
