On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Ryan May <rma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:39 AM, John Hunter <jdh2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On the animations issue, I have noticed one strange behavior when I tried > to > > remove the gtk extension code and replace it with pure python and found > the > > new animations API behaved strangely (but not the old) under the new > code. > > I never committed my changes because I could not resolve whether it was > my > > code or Ryan's that was causing the problem, and he wasn't sure either. > But > > incompletely baked features (and I wouldn't even call the animations code > > incompletely baked) are OK for releases. It's better to get them out > there > > and in use so our users can find and fix the bugs :-) > > Well if you need to rip it out/"temporarily" break it to improve the > gtk backend, by all means do so. I'll be bogged down for a few more > months, after which I'll be able to work more on it. (FINALLY.) The > only reason I even checked it in originally was so that others could > play, but I was (and still am) not ready to commit completely to the > API. > > Ryan > > The problem is that there aren't a lot of people playing with this code, and people are still using the documentation's examples for animations. Maybe we ought to consider a mechanism to release it with the next release with a huge "experimental" sticker on it, somehow?
Ben Root
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