On 3/22/2012 7:18 PM, John Hunter wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:58 PM, John Hunter <jdh2...@gmail.com
> <mailto:jdh2...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I think we are pretty close to cleaning up issues and PRs related to
>     v1.1.x, so I'd like to cut the release candidate this Thursday.
>       Let's continue to hammer on closing open issues and pull requests,
>     and flag anything that needs to be addressed before the release as
>     "release_critical" in the issue tracker.  If there are show stoppers
>     I am not aware of, chime in.
>
>
> The tarballs for the v1.1.1 release candidate 1 (rc1) are uploaded to
> and are available for testing and building binaries
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.1.1/
>
> After the binaries are up, I'll send out a notice to the users list
> requesting wider testing, but intrepid developers can begin now.
>
> The reference github commit for rc1 is
> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/commit/c5593eea91d82559c6e30e999635b93a35a13bc9
>
> There was a heroic effort by Michael Droetboom and Thomas Robitaille in
> the last two days to get past the freetype version and platform specific
> rendering issues, mainly revolving around anti-aliasing, and we are
> pretty close to there, so going forward we can expect almost all of the
> tests to pass for almost all of the developers, and have a mechanism for
> adding freetype version dependent known fails.  This will make our tests
> much more useful.  Thomas in particular did a crazy amount of testing on
> every conceivable combination of freetype settings and versions which
> really pushed the success of this effort, and Michael stayed right there
> with him committing fixes faster than any human could test.
>
> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/779
>
> This will be the last release supporting python 2.4 and in all
> likelihood the last of the 1.1.x line, so I'd like to make it rock
> solid.  Testing will be appreciated.  For those of you who prefer the
> github interface/workflow, I'm opening up an "open thread" issue
>
> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/791
>
> Thanks to all who've contributed -- I'll work up detailed notes for the
> real release, hopefully next week.  Russell and Christoph, you should be
> able to access to file manager interface directly on sf to upload your
> binaries, but let me know if you have any troubles.
>
> JDH
>

Hi John,

Windows binaries, including the test files, are at 
<http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#matplotlib>.

All my attempts to upload the files to SF failed (no error report).

I'll run tests later.

Christoph

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