Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.3.1rc1 tagged

2013-09-27 Thread Michael Droettboom
On 09/27/2013 02:27 PM, Christoph Gohlke wrote: > On 9/27/2013 10:20 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: >> - Now works with 64-bit versions of Ghostscript on MS-Windows. > Not really. gswin64c.exe is detected in __init__.py but apparently not > used in the PS backend: > > https://github.com/matplotlib/m

Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.3.1rc1 tagged

2013-09-27 Thread Michael Droettboom
Thanks for letting me know -- obviously not good. I'll have a look. Mike On 09/27/2013 01:45 PM, Christoph Gohlke wrote: > Hello, > > `matplotlib-1.3.1rc1.tar.gz\matplotlib-1.3.1rc1\lib\matplotlib.egg-info\SOURCES.txt` > > contains absolute paths to `/usr/src/CXX/*.cxx` files and therefore >

Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.3.1rc1 tagged

2013-09-27 Thread Christoph Gohlke
On 9/27/2013 10:20 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > - Now works with 64-bit versions of Ghostscript on MS-Windows. Not really. gswin64c.exe is detected in __init__.py but apparently not used in the PS backend: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/v1.3.x/lib/matplotlib/__init__.py#L341 ht

Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.3.1rc1 tagged

2013-09-27 Thread Christoph Gohlke
Hello, `matplotlib-1.3.1rc1.tar.gz\matplotlib-1.3.1rc1\lib\matplotlib.egg-info\SOURCES.txt` contains absolute paths to `/usr/src/CXX/*.cxx` files and therefore distutils fails to build installers on Windows. Deleting the .egg-info directory works for me. Christoph On 9/27/2013 10:20 AM, Mic

[matplotlib-devel] 1.3.1rc1 tagged

2013-09-27 Thread Michael Droettboom
I have tagged a 1.3.1 release candidate. Congrats to everyone who reported bugs and worked hard to fix them for this release. As this is only a bugfix release, it should hopefully not take as long to get through the release candidate process. I hope to hear from all the packagers over the nex

Re: [matplotlib-devel] matplotlib user guide

2013-09-27 Thread mark
Many thanks for the feedback. So ,my first cut was to segregate the user guide by topic. Below is the summary I had in mind for an Introduction for New Users. Hopefully this gives a flavour of what I have in mind. I will attempt to put this into practice and post again when I have a user guide