Re: [matplotlib-devel] [Enthought-dev] Good feedback on traits

2007-07-17 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:49:19AM -0500, Robert Kern wrote: > Gael Varoquaux wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 04:54:49PM -1000, Eric Firing wrote: > >> The 2.0 branch is not new enough, though; we need the trunk. > > Nonononono. Believe me. Unless you want to live on the bleeding edge. > > Al

Re: [matplotlib-devel] [Enthought-dev] Good feedback on traits

2007-07-17 Thread Robert Kern
Gael Varoquaux wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 04:54:49PM -1000, Eric Firing wrote: >> The 2.0 branch is not new enough, though; we need the trunk. > > Nonononono. Believe me. Unless you want to live on the bleeding edge. All > the QA is done on the branches. The trunk is for active developemen

Re: [matplotlib-devel] [Enthought-dev] Good feedback on traits

2007-07-17 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 04:54:49PM -1000, Eric Firing wrote: > The 2.0 branch is not new enough, though; we need the trunk. Nonononono. Believe me. Unless you want to live on the bleeding edge. All the QA is done on the branches. The trunk is for active developement (some active developement hap

Re: [matplotlib-devel] [Enthought-dev] Good feedback on traits

2007-07-17 Thread Eric Firing
Bryce Hendrix wrote: > John, you're trying to check out the code from Trac, not svn :) Try this > URL > > https://svn.enthought.com/svn/enthought/branches/enthought.traits_2.0 I just did this. There is still an authentication problem, but manually accepting the cert makes it work. The 2.0 bra

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-17 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, this is an important discussion also for us (ipython), so I'll go in some detail into things. It would be great if out of this we got something that both ipython and matplotlib could reuse for the long haul, though I'm not sure (in a sense, ipython has some nastier requirements that mpl m

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Steeling some of you colormaps

2007-07-17 Thread John Hunter
On 7/17/07, Gael Varoquaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have written a small script that uses pylab to retrieve the data for > the MPL colormaps. I am thinking of checking in both the script, and the > resulting data in Mayavi2 (FBSD licenced). Can I do such a thing > (stealing colormaps ?). You

[matplotlib-devel] Steeling some of you colormaps

2007-07-17 Thread Gael Varoquaux
I have written a small script that uses pylab to retrieve the data for the MPL colormaps. I am thinking of checking in both the script, and the resulting data in Mayavi2 (FBSD licenced). Can I do such a thing (stealing colormaps ?). Cheers

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-17 Thread Fernando Perez
On 7/17/07, Michael Droettboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TraitsUI seems really cool, but there are a couple of reasons I think > that should probably be considered lower priority. For one, it would > need to be generalized and ported (backend-ed) for all of matplotlib's > many gui backends. A

Re: [matplotlib-devel] negative log transforms

2007-07-17 Thread Paul Kienzle
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 11:54:19AM -0400, Perry Greenfield wrote: > This is exactly the sort of thing that I thought a transform approach > would make easier to do. So if it isn't urgent, waiting probably > would be better. (by the way, we see exactly the same sort of log > scale you propose

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-17 Thread Darren Dale
Sorry for double posting. Apparently the original posting was html formatted, and looked nonsensical. Hopefully this one is more clear: On Tuesday 17 July 2007 02:31:02 pm Darren Dale wrote: > On Tuesday 17 July 2007 09:33:47 am John Hunter wrote: > > Speaking of branches, we may need to seriousl

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-17 Thread Darren Dale
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 09:33:47 am John Hunter wrote: > Speaking of branches, we may need to seriously consider a branch here, > mpl1. I vote for a branch. Maybe we could consider an alternative directory layout in a branch, the current layout is a bit entropic. For the sake of discussion: mpl/

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-17 Thread Robert Kern
Christopher Barker wrote: > I have thought about the safety issue. One idea I've had (though I never > bothered with it) was to strip the input files of "import" lines first. > You could do a whole lot less if you couldn't import any arbitrary modules. Disallowing import statements won't help w

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-17 Thread Christopher Barker
Darren Dale wrote: > John, Eric, have you had a look at the way IPython1 handles config files? > Here's a taste: > In ipython's scheme, the config files > are loaded using execfile, I wonder if that might appear unsafe to anyone? This is, of course, terribly unsafe, but does anyone have a use

Re: [matplotlib-devel] negative log transforms

2007-07-17 Thread Perry Greenfield
This is exactly the sort of thing that I thought a transform approach would make easier to do. So if it isn't urgent, waiting probably would be better. (by the way, we see exactly the same sort of log scale you propose in one of our older (non-python) packages. So there is a call for this s

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-17 Thread Darren Dale
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 11:22:29 am John Hunter wrote: > On 7/17/07, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to add the dict-based validation scheme for 0.91. It should be > > quick, and then I can focus on traits and a new config scheme, in an mpl1 > > branch if we decide that is best.

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-17 Thread John Hunter
On 7/17/07, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to add the dict-based validation scheme for 0.91. It should be quick, > and then I can focus on traits and a new config scheme, in an mpl1 branch if > we decide that is best. Sounds like a good plan. --

[matplotlib-devel] negative log transforms

2007-07-17 Thread Paul Kienzle
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 08:33:47AM -0500, John Hunter wrote: > Speaking of branches, we may need to seriously consider a branch here, > mpl1. The changes here may involve breaking a fair amount of code, > which I don't mind doing to get it right, but I'm somewhat inclined to > branch off here for

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-17 Thread Darren Dale
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 09:33:47 am John Hunter wrote: > We should also consider getting out a 0.91 release as soon as we can > finish the numpification, because Michael has done a lot of good work. > So much to do I'd like to add the dict-based validation scheme for 0.91. It should be quick,

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-17 Thread John Hunter
On 7/17/07, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm really impressed with how readable and well organized the code is in > ipython1. It looks like their approach to configuration has been carefully > considered. Any chance we can follow their lead? It looks like it would be a I haven't looke

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-17 Thread Darren Dale
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 09:15:15 am Darren Dale wrote: > I'm really impressed with how readable and well organized the code is in > ipython1. It looks like their approach to configuration has been carefully > considered. Any chance we can follow their lead? It looks like it would be > a good fit: w

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-17 Thread Darren Dale
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 08:01:41 am Michael Droettboom wrote: > Gael Varoquaux wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:31:03PM -0500, John Hunter wrote: > >> I am happy to be the first at this point -- enthought has done a lot > >> to support traits. Traits has one of the most impressive pieces of >

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-17 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 08:01:41AM -0400, Michael Droettboom wrote: > TraitsUI seems really cool, but there are a couple of reasons I think > that should probably be considered lower priority. For one, it would > need to be generalized and ported (backend-ed) for all of matplotlib's > many gui

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-17 Thread Michael Droettboom
Gael Varoquaux wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:31:03PM -0500, John Hunter wrote: > >> I am happy to be the first at this point -- enthought has done a lot >> to support traits. Traits has one of the most impressive pieces of >> technical documentation in the scientific python community. >>