Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-08 Thread Tom Holroyd
Sorry, I just don't like that word. And the "UR ..." was a lame reference to LOL Cats. :-) Sorry, sorry, I'll go away now. P.S. I love matplotlib. On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 22:53 +0100, Gael Varoquaux wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 04:49:00PM -0500, Michael Droettboom wrote: > > I don't think "UR DO

Re: [matplotlib-devel] demo bugs

2008-01-08 Thread Michael Droettboom
Thanks. I'll have a look at these tomorrow. It's actually nice to think I'll have some more eyes on this code soon... It's a lot of work keeping up with so many examples when the changes are so fundamental. Cheers, Mike

[matplotlib-devel] demo bugs

2008-01-08 Thread Eric Firing
Mike, In going through examples (on transforms branch immediately before you made the switch), it looks like there are a couple of new bugs in those included by backend_driver.py: 1) legend_demo.py and legend_demo2.py make spurious black blocks, which go away when the plots are redrawn. 2) t

[matplotlib-devel] major changes in matplotlib svn

2008-01-08 Thread John Hunter
Migrating to the new matplotlib codebase Michael Droettboom has spent the last several months working on the "transforms branch" of matplotlib, in which he rewrote from the ground up the transformation infrastructure in matplotlib, which many found unintuit

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-08 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 04:49:00PM -0500, Michael Droettboom wrote: > I don't think "UR DOIN IT WRONG" is an entirely correct assessment, > however. Much of this change can be considered refactoring wrt to the > high-level public API. Refactoring is often defined (in test driven development) a

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-08 Thread John Hunter
On Jan 8, 2008 1:49 PM, Michael Droettboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for enlightening us. This overloaded and contentious word > will be replaced. BTW Michael, ready to go when you are JDH - Check out the new S

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-08 Thread Michael Droettboom
Thank you for enlightening us. This overloaded and contentious word will be replaced. I don't think "UR DOIN IT WRONG" is an entirely correct assessment, however. Much of this change can be considered refactoring wrt to the high-level public API. For instance, I believe basemap only had to

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-08 Thread Tom Holroyd
UR DOIN IT WRONG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refactoring On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 10:48 -0800, John Hunter wrote: > To check out the trunk with the latest transforms refactoring: The word refactoring applies to cases of code cleanup and so on. Refactoring implies functional equivalence. Dr. Tom

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-08 Thread James Amundson
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:54:38 -1000 Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Straw wrote: > > Something I haven't seen addressed on the numpy list (or here) is > > using hg or bzr to mirror an svn repository. What would be the > > added advantage to the project of using a DVCS if all the > >

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-08 Thread John Hunter
On Jan 8, 2008 8:11 AM, Michael Droettboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also -- we probably want a news item to say something like this: I just added MIGRATION.txt to the trunk -- after you do the merge, we can post this document to provide the migration instructions. I've tried to add all your t

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-08 Thread Michael Droettboom
Also -- we probably want a news item to say something like this: The experimental transforms refactoring changes have been merged into SVN trunk. While this version is passing all examples and unit tests, there may be changes that subtly break things that used to work, raise nasty except

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-08 Thread Michael Droettboom
John Hunter wrote: > Michael, since you know more about this than anyone, you should > probably spearhead the svn reorganization and let people know when the > changes become effective with some advance notice. I will update the > website with pointers to the relevant docs (your API_CHANGES and >

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-08 Thread Michael Droettboom
John Hunter wrote: > On Jan 7, 2008 2:37 PM, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> (At the moment I can't compile the branch--I just sent Mike a message >> about that off the list, with voluminous output.) >> >> It seems like what is needed is not exactly a merge operation but simply >> a