John Hunter wrote: > On Jan 7, 2008 2:15 PM, Jeff Whitaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I think namespace packages were being used before, but were removed. I >> don't remember why. >> > > We removed the namespace packages support because we were using it > improperly. To do it correctly would require moving all of the > functionality out of matplotlib/__init__.py. Since there is currently > a fair amount of functionality there, adding namespace support would > require moving it and breaking the current API. In addition, there are > some ongoing issues with performance and namespace packages. Because > of this, we had some ambivalence about namespace packages and decided > to remove the broken support until we could add proper support, if we > decide to go that route. A good time to do that, if indeed we want > to, would be when we release Michael's transforms branch, so we can > break as much as possible at once. > > JDH >
John: OK, then I can think of two options for basemap in the interim: 1) remove setuptools support, since basemap cannot be installed as an egg without namespace packages. This means that python2.3 support would have to be dropped. 2) move the toolkits to basemap_toolkits, as Philip Eby suggested, and make matplotlib_toolkits a namespace package. Unfortunately, this may break lots of existing code. -Jeff -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 Meteorologist FAX : (303)497-6449 NOAA/OAR/PSD R/PSD1 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] 325 Broadway Office : Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-124 Boulder, CO, USA 80303-3328 Web : http://tinyurl.com/5telg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
