2009/12/31 Fernando Perez <fperez....@gmail.com>: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 4:54 AM, Darren Dale <dsdal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have been resistant to committing this patch because (in my opinion) >> mpl should not have to provide workarounds for bugs in package X on OS >> Y, distribution Z. I think this particular issue was fixed when >> PyQt4-4.6.2 was released. But its time to get practical, I suppose. >> The patch looks fine, I just checked it into the trunk. > > Thanks! As the zen goes, practicality beats purity :) I understand > your reluctance though, it's annoying to pepper mpl's code with this > kind of junk. > > Happy New Year! > > f >
I completely agree. If developers were all doing their "job" in time, this should not be necessary and Darren's position would be perfectly right and justified. However, especially on certain open-source libraries, things are not moving as fast as they should. For example, in Spyder I had to re-implement a console-oriented text editor widget with Scintilla-like features because QScintilla's widget had a performance issue with very long lines (which is almost undectectable when using it as a simple text editor but it may slow down display when using it as a console widget). This bug was fixed just a few days after being reported but there has been no release since then (August 2009). So, to make it work, I had to do this big workaround until the next release of QScintilla has spread on every platform (i.e. not until a year I guess). In terms of code refactoring (or purity...), this was not very satisfying but now Spyder works perfectly because I stopped saying "it's not my fault, it's QScintilla's". So even if I agree with Darren on the fact that libraries such as matplotlib should not provide this kind of workaround, I also think that -at some point- one has to get practical indeed! Happy new year guys! Cheers, Pierre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
