On 8/11/11 4:11 AM, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Coverity is an interesting product and I heard of it before on
>> TheDailyWTF.com (in positive light, of course!).  However, it appears 
>> that
>> you were scanning an outdated version of our software.  The current 
>> release
>> version is v1.0.1, and we are poised to do another release soon.  The
>> current version of our software can be found at
>> https://github.com/matplotlib/ (there are separate matplotlib and 
>> basemap
>> repos).  I would certainly be interested in the results on that.
>
> Hi, I've checked last results of coverity against svn version and 
> these filtered
> defects are present there also (not only in version 0.9.4) but I have 
> made new
> scan for you on trunk code. The coverity error log is attached.
>
>   python-basemap-1.0.2.err (defects in hand-written source)
>   python-basemap-1.0.2.gc (defects in generated code)
>
>> However, if RedHat is interested in packaging matplotlib in a release of
>> RHEL (I know a lot of people at NOAA, NWS and NSSL who would appreciate
>> that) and there is a particular version of matplotlib that you have 
>> selected
>> for packaging, we can certainly work with you on that.
>
> We are not currently planning packaging matplotlib in RHEL. Coverity's 
> scans are
> done on wide range of package canditates for next RHEL but it does not 
> necessary
> mean that matplotlib will be included. There is long way to this yet.. 
> and
> I can not affect this unfortunately.
>
> Howeever, if you would like to help with packaging in Fedora, you 
> could try to
> contact python-basemap's maintainer in Fedora.
>
> Thank you,
> Pavel

These warnings all are either in cython generated code, or proj4 library 
code.  Since cython code is automatically generated, I can't fix those.  
I don't want to change the proj4 library routines either, since they are 
externally maintained.

-Jeff


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