Hi Giovanni,
On 26.01.10, Giovanni Samaey wrote:
> I am a long-time user of PyX, and am very happy with the quality of
> the figures, and with the way I need to code them.
We're always happy to hear this.
> However, our system administrators question the usefulness of maintaining pyx
> in their python installation, because the latest release is over 2 years old.
That's right, although I wonder why this should decrease the usefulness
of PyX. Anyway, there is still some development going on and there is
also enough material in SVN for a new release.
> I am also starting to notice some deprecation errors that arise when using
> PyX in python 2.6.4
>
> For instance:
>
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/6.0.0/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pyx/text.py:888:
> DeprecationWarning: os.popen4 is deprecated. Use the subprocess module.
> self.texinput, self.texoutput = os.popen4("%s%s %s" % (self.mode, ipcflag,
> self.texfilename), "t", 0)
We are well aware that there is a new standard library module for IPC,
but traditionally we have been very conservative in what Python version
we require. The subprocess module, for instance, has been added to
Python 2.4 "only" and to me it is not obvious whether it is worth to
break compatibility with Python 2.3, which is still in quite some use.
Best,
Jörg
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