On 11 December 2012 23:07, Tony Yu <tsy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You suggest keeping the old examples around in some dark corner. Is
>> there some advantage you envision for doing this? I'd just as soon remove
>> them. Note that the documentation on the website is now versioned, so the
>> examples that shipped with 1.2.0 will remain live and unchanged
>> indefinitely. If a user wants the older gallery it should just be there
>> under matplotlib.org/1.2.
>>
>
> I noted that old examples could either be kept in a dark corner, or
> deleted. I'm actually strongly in favor of deleting, especially since the
> website is versioned (nice---I didn't know this). I was afraid some people
> would be resistant to deleting, but I'm happy to hear that you prefer it.
> I'll make this preference clearer in the MEP.
>
I haven't had time to consider all the details of this proposal, but I'd
like to advise against overzealous deletion. For those of us less familiar
with matplotlib's API, a pretty standard approach is to scan through the
examples gallery for the plot that looks most like the one we want, copy
the code and tweak it into what we need. So a big gallery is very useful.
Of course, that doesn't mean it should grow ad infinitum, and I'm sure
you'll use good judgement on this. I just wanted to check you were aware of
this use case.
Best wishes,
Thomas
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