On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Xavier Gnata <xavier.gn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/13/2011 07:38 PM, Darren Dale wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Michael Droettboom<md...@stsci.edu>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> This was recently discussed in the thread "v1.0.x branch seems confused."
>>>
>>> I (believe) the consensus was to get out another v1.0.x maintenance
>>> release out in the near future (which would not support py3k, but would
>>> still support Python 2.4), and then merge the py3 branch into master so
>>> it starts to get some more testing before making the next major release.
>>>
>>> I'm just today merging master into py3 so that when we are ready to do
>>> the merge the other way most of the hard work will have already been
>>> done.
>>
>> Are there features already in master that should be supported by
>> <python-2.6? If so, I think we should consider releasing 1.1.0 and
>> making a 1.1.x maintenance branch before merging the py3 stuff back
>> into master. Then mpl-1.2 could be the first to support py3.
>>
>> Should we move this discussion to the mpl-dev mailing list?
>>
>> Darren
>
> Ho I wasn't aware of an mpl-dev mailing list. Sorry.
> py3 is already ok with python3  *and* python2 isn't it?

With python-2.6 and python-2.7, yes, but not with older versions.
There will be some outstanding issues with python3, like certain
backends that will not work because the gui toolkits have not been
ported.

> Maybe the website should advertise a bit on the needs to test the py3
> branch.
> Users used to compile mpl from git should be able to produce valuable
> technical feedback, shoudn't they?

I think we should wait until we merge py3 back into the main repo.

Darren

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