On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Darren Dale <dsdal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Phil Elson <pelson....@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for bringing this up, it is certainly valuable to highlight this
> on
> > the mailinglist. As you say, the change is hard to spot and, I agree,
> makes
> > library code supporting v1.1.1 and v1.2 harder than one would like.
> > Typically, anything which is going to break core APIs (even slightly)
> should
> > be documented under the "API Changes" page here
> > http://matplotlib.org/api/api_changes.html#changes-in-1-2-x
>
> I suggest that an API change should have triggered a major version
> bump to mpl-2.0.0. It seems a well-established expectation for a
> major.minor.bugfix versioning scheme that bugfix releases will not
> introduce new features, and minor releases will not introduce API
> changes.
>
> Darren
>
>
Agreed. I think what happened here was short-sightedness (somewhat on my
part since I was involved in that PR). I didn't realize this sort of
situation when I reviewed it. This originally looked more like an
enhancement that a more fundamental change. My apologies.
Ben Root
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