Hi all, I'm writing here in the hopes that both the ubuntu packagers are on this list, and that we change things a bit in mpl to prevent this problem from happening. After a nasty debugging marathon with the IPython test suite failing on Ubuntu 11.10 beta -- see details at https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/823, I finally tracked the problem down to this little gem:
amirbar[matplotlib-1.0.1.egg-info]> pwd /usr/share/pyshared/matplotlib-1.0.1.egg-info amirbar[matplotlib-1.0.1.egg-info]> cat entry_points.txt [nose.plugins] KnownFailure = matplotlib.testing.noseclasses:KnownFailure I'm not sure why the packagers decided to register this as a global plugin, but it makes a mess. You can read some of the details in the thread above if you're really interested. I've filed the ubuntu bug here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/matplotlib/+bug/871176 But I suggest we actually *remove* this code from matplotlib altogether. In ipython we do carry a copy of the same code, but we load it very conditionally, only if numpy isn't found: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/blob/master/IPython/external/decorators/_numpy_testing_noseclasses.py This ensures we'll never collide with the 'real' version in numpy. For IPython, numpy isn't a dependency, so we have to do this. But mpl always has numpy around, so perhaps it would be better to simply use it from numpy? Cheers, f ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
