Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP11: Attempting to deal with the Python library dependency issue

2012-10-03 Thread Erik Bray
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > On 10/03/2012 05:26 PM, Erik Bray wrote: >> On 10/03/2012 12:20 PM, Michael Droettboom wrote: >>> I invite comments for a new MEP about improving the situation with >>> respect to our bundling of third-party Python dependencies. >>> >>> I

Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP11: Attempting to deal with the Python library dependency issue

2012-10-03 Thread Michael Droettboom
On 10/03/2012 05:26 PM, Erik Bray wrote: > On 10/03/2012 12:20 PM, Michael Droettboom wrote: >> I invite comments for a new MEP about improving the situation with >> respect to our bundling of third-party Python dependencies. >> >> In particular, I'd love feedback from the various stakeholders -- t

Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP11: Attempting to deal with the Python library dependency issue

2012-10-03 Thread Damon McDougall
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Christoph Gohlke wrote: > On 10/3/2012 9:20 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: >> I invite comments for a new MEP about improving the situation with >> respect to our bundling of third-party Python dependencies. >> >> In particular, I'd love feedback from the various st

Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP11: Attempting to deal with the Python library dependency issue

2012-10-03 Thread Chris Barker
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Christoph Gohlke wrote: A bunch of great stuff: +1 all around Another use-case is py2exe, py2app, and friends -- at the moment, you pretty much have to include the whole dang MPL package to get things to work. Cleaning up some of these dependencies could improve

Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP11: Attempting to deal with the Python library dependency issue

2012-10-03 Thread Christoph Gohlke
On 10/3/2012 9:20 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > I invite comments for a new MEP about improving the situation with > respect to our bundling of third-party Python dependencies. > > In particular, I'd love feedback from the various stakeholders -- those > producing binary installers and packages f

[matplotlib-devel] MEP11: Attempting to deal with the Python library dependency issue

2012-10-03 Thread Michael Droettboom
I invite comments for a new MEP about improving the situation with respect to our bundling of third-party Python dependencies. In particular, I'd love feedback from the various stakeholders -- those producing binary installers and packages for the various platforms. https://github.com/matplot

Re: [matplotlib-devel] deprecate and remove original Navigation toolbar?

2012-10-03 Thread Michael Droettboom
+1 On 10/03/2012 04:36 AM, Phil Elson wrote: Good question! It would certainly be a welcome deprecation from my point of view. There is a fair amount of overhead maintaining it if you make any changes to the way backends work (as I have done a couple of times recently). Depending on feedba

Re: [matplotlib-devel] deprecate and remove original Navigation toolbar?

2012-10-03 Thread Phil Elson
Good question! It would certainly be a welcome deprecation from my point of view. There is a fair amount of overhead maintaining it if you make any changes to the way backends work (as I have done a couple of times recently). Depending on feedback here, it is something we could potentially deprec