Re: [matplotlib-devel] Renaming OSX wheels on pypi to make them more general

2014-06-04 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article , Matthew Brett wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Russell E. Owen > wrote: > > In article > > > public.gmane.org>, > > Chris Barker wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Matthew Brett > >>

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Renaming OSX wheels on pypi to make them more general

2014-06-03 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article , Chris Barker wrote: > On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Matthew Brett > > wrote: > > > > what is this going to do on OS-X 10.7 and 10.8 systems running homebrew > > or > > > macports pythons? It seems this list could get pretty long! > > > Yes, it could, but this list: > > > > so

Re: [matplotlib-devel] OS-X binaries?

2013-10-23 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article , Matthew Brett wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal > wrote: > > Are there recent binaries for OS-X anywhere? There don't seem to be > > any for recent releases on the MPL download page. > > > > I know we had a discussion about this

Re: [matplotlib-devel] matplotlib user guide

2013-10-04 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <20130927140906.3ded3...@metarelate.net>, mark wrote: > 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. >

Re: [matplotlib-devel] font problems: fc-list takes up 100% of CPU and runs forever

2013-10-04 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <524c5b80.5090...@stsci.edu>, Michael Droettboom wrote: > On 10/02/2013 01:34 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote: > > In article <524c130c.3020...@stsci.edu>, > > Michael Droettboom > > wrote: > > > >> I haven't heard of this issu

Re: [matplotlib-devel] font problems: fc-list takes up 100% of CPU and runs forever

2013-10-02 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <524c130c.3020...@stsci.edu>, Michael Droettboom wrote: > I haven't heard of this issue before. > > fc-list comes from the fontconfig project. It is used to get a list of > all of the fonts installed on the system. It sounds like there is some > bug there -- the usual culprit i

[matplotlib-devel] font problems: fc-list takes up 100% of CPU and runs forever

2013-10-01 Thread Russell E. Owen
I distribute a Mac application using matplotlib. Recent versions that use matplotlib 1.3.0 fail to run on some new accounts. The symptoms are that the application never finishes loading and a task named "fc-list" takes up 100% of a core -- for as long as we've let it run (a good fraction of an

Re: [matplotlib-devel] I have a Mac!

2013-08-22 Thread Russell E. Owen
cl/Tk (if both are even available)? -- Russell > > -matt > > > > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Russell E. Owen > wrote: > > > A few hints: > > > > If you just want to build matplotlib for your own computer (and don't > > care

Re: [matplotlib-devel] I have a Mac!

2013-08-20 Thread Russell E. Owen
A few hints: If you just want to build matplotlib for your own computer (and don't care about making an installer that will work on anybody else's) then you can install from source with very little trouble: - You may want to edit setupext.py to limit searching to those dirs that really matter,

Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.3.0 final tagged and uploaded

2013-08-08 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article , "Russell E. Owen" wrote: > In article <51fbb996.5030...@stsci.edu>, > Michael Droettboom > wrote: > > > Ludwig, this is one of the most entertaining e-mails I've read in a > > while, and I think your arguments make a lot of sense

Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.3.0 final tagged and uploaded

2013-08-07 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <51fbb996.5030...@stsci.edu>, Michael Droettboom wrote: > Ludwig, this is one of the most entertaining e-mails I've read in a > while, and I think your arguments make a lot of sense. > > Given infinite developer resources, do you think there's any logic to > providing *both* syst

Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.3.0 final tagged and uploaded

2013-07-31 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <51f997f0.5060...@stsci.edu>, Michael Droettboom wrote: > On 07/31/2013 05:05 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote: > > In article <51f950cb.7060...@stsci.edu>, > > Michael Droettboom > > wrote: > > > >> On 07/31/2013 01:47 PM, Russel

Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.3.0 final tagged and uploaded

2013-07-31 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <51f950cb.7060...@stsci.edu>, Michael Droettboom wrote: > On 07/31/2013 01:47 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote: > > In article <51f92f58.6020...@stsci.edu>, > > Michael Droettboom > > wrote: > > > >> I have tagged and uploaded matp

Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.3.0 final tagged and uploaded

2013-07-31 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <51f950cb.7060...@stsci.edu>, Michael Droettboom wrote: > On 07/31/2013 01:47 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote: > > In article <51f92f58.6020...@stsci.edu>, > > Michael Droettboom > > wrote: > > > >> I have tagged and uploaded matp

Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.3.0 final tagged and uploaded

2013-07-31 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <51f92f58.6020...@stsci.edu>, Michael Droettboom wrote: > I have tagged and uploaded matplotlib 1.3.0 final. Congratulations to > all involved! It was a long slog getting this release out, and I > appreciate everyone's patience. > > Once we have binaries uploaded to SourceForge

Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.3.0rc5 tagged

2013-07-24 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <51edb794.9010...@stsci.edu>, Michael Droettboom wrote: > On 07/22/2013 05:59 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote: > > In article <51e9681b.3010...@stsci.edu>, > > Michael Droettboom > > wrote: > > > >> At long last, I have a 1.3.0rc5 tag

Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.3.0rc5 tagged

2013-07-22 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <51e9681b.3010...@stsci.edu>, Michael Droettboom wrote: > At long last, I have a 1.3.0rc5 tagged. I really hope to the software > deities that this is the last rc before final. > > If you wouldn't mind creating and posting the binaries, I'll make an > announcment on matplotlib-u

Re: [matplotlib-devel] matplotlib 1.3.0rc3 tomorrow

2013-06-19 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <51c0b2f6.5070...@stsci.edu>, Michael Droettboom wrote: > I have tagged a 1.3.0rc3 and uploaded a tarball to Sourceforge. > > We may not get all the binaries up in the next little while, so I'll > wait for those and then make an announcement on matplotlib-users. After > a couple

Re: [matplotlib-devel] matplotlib 1.3.0rc3 tomorrow

2013-06-19 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <51c0b2f6.5070...@stsci.edu>, Michael Droettboom wrote: > I have tagged a 1.3.0rc3 and uploaded a tarball to Sourceforge. > > We may not get all the binaries up in the next little while, so I'll > wait for those and then make an announcement on matplotlib-users. After > a couple

[matplotlib-devel] Mac binary for 1.3.0rc2; more errors than usual in the unit tests

2013-05-30 Thread Russell E. Owen
I uploaded a binary installer for MacOS X, 64-bit python.org python 2.7. I built it using numpy 1.7.1. This version does not include pytz, dateutil or six, but the included ReadMe says they are prerequisites and suggests installing them with pip. The tests showed more problems than usual. I have

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Closing in on 1.3.0 release candidate

2013-05-29 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <51a51603.5030...@stsci.edu>, Michael Droettboom wrote: > I am going to hold off one more day on making the release candidate. > There are three blocker bugs that were discovered over the weekend and > I'd like to give them a chance for review first:... Thanks for the update. T

Re: [matplotlib-devel] ANN: matplotlib-1.3.0rc1

2013-05-29 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <51a64bcf.80...@stsci.edu>, Michael Droettboom wrote: > I'm pleased to announce the tagging of matplotlib-1.3.0rc1. > > Once the binaries from Christoph and Russell have been uploaded, I'll > make a broader announcement to get some testing of this in advance of > the final releas

Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.2.1rc1 Tagged

2013-03-08 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <5139f2d9.1050...@stsci.edu>, Michael Droettboom wrote: > On 03/07/2013 06:48 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote: > > In article <5138eaf1.7040...@stsci.edu>, > > Michael Droettboom > > wrote: > > > >> We've finally squashed all

Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.2.1rc1 Tagged

2013-03-07 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <5138eaf1.7040...@stsci.edu>, Michael Droettboom wrote: > We've finally squashed all of the bugs slated for 1.2.1, so I have > tagged a 1.2.1rc1 for testing. This is a bugfix release, and improves > on the overall quality of 1.2.0. Thanks to everyone who worked hard to > fix a

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Py3 Binaries for OSX?

2012-12-11 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article , Fernando Perez wrote: > Hi folks, > > quick question; on the downloads page > (https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/downloads) I only see py27 > OSX binaries; is there any official location for Py3 ones? I just had > a colleague ask me about them and I couldn't find any in

Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.2.0 Final tagged and uploaded

2012-11-08 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <509be976.90...@stsci.edu>, Michael Droettboom wrote: > Thanks again to everyone for all of their hard work. This release has > been tagged and uploaded. > > As per the usual drill, once we have the binaries up, I'll make an ANN > on matplotlib-users. > > The documentation is c

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Delaying rc3 (again)

2012-10-30 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <508ff830.3050...@stsci.edu>, Michael Droettboom wrote: > Agreed! Thanks to everyone for their hard work. I think this has > shaped up to be a great release. > > I'm fortunate to have power and connectivity today, so I was able to get > a release tested, tagged and uploaded. >

Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.2.0rc2 is tagged and uploaded

2012-09-24 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <506092fe.3020...@stsci.edu>, Michael Droettboom wrote: > For the compilation problem, I am no Objective-C expert, but in C, line > 3557 should certainly read: > > NSSize pxlSize = NSMakeSize(rep->pixelsWide, rep->pixelsHigh); > > I wonder if that fixes it -- but that's a to

Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.2.0rc2 is tagged and uploaded

2012-09-24 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <505a06b4.6080...@stsci.edu>, Michael Droettboom wrote: > I have tagged and created a tarball for 1.2.0rc2. The githash is > 656c88f3e546. The tarball is on the github download page here: > > https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/downloads > > This includes a number of impor

Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.2.0rc1 is cut

2012-09-18 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <50509fb1.7070...@stsci.edu>, Michael Droettboom wrote: > I have tagged and created a tarball for 1.2.0rc1. The githash is > bda6dd9feab8. The tarball is on the github download page here: > > https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/downloads > > I have created a new branch, v1

Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.2.0rc1 is cut

2012-09-17 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article , Phil Elson wrote: > @Sandro: Yes, we merged the two together to simplify our code base and to > reduce dependencies etc.; Hopefully that doesn't cause you too much grief? > > > Eric/Russell, is there an issue on github for the reported problem? I just submitted ticket #1270

Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.2.0rc1 is cut

2012-09-13 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <50509fb1.7070...@stsci.edu>, Michael Droettboom wrote: > I have tagged and created a tarball for 1.2.0rc1. The githash is > bda6dd9feab8. The tarball is on the github download page here: > > https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/downloads I have a Mac OS X 10.6, python.org

Re: [matplotlib-devel] v1.1.1rc2 tarballs are up

2012-07-06 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article , Jouni K. Seppänen wrote: > Russell Owen writes: > > > By the way: I installed ghostscript from source and Inkscape > > application from binary. More tests pass, but many still show K. My > > guess is that matplotlib can see ghostscript but not the Inkscape > > application (no surp

Re: [matplotlib-devel] v1.1.1rc2 tarballs are up

2012-07-05 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article , Russell Owen wrote: > I just uploaded the Mac binaries. > > Several minor concerns: > - Many unit tests failed on Mac OS X 10.4 (which is where I build the 10.3.9 > version) due to "too many files open", but the same binary looks fine on > 10.5. > - The 64-bit version (10.6 and l

Re: [matplotlib-devel] needed: OS X maintainer

2012-06-21 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <4fddf193.30...@hawaii.edu>, Eric Firing wrote: > If you have expertise in python package building on OS X, including more > than one method and more than one OS X version, please see > https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/168. > > Eric > > -

Re: [matplotlib-devel] matplotlib v1.1.1 (bugfix) rc1 on Thursday

2012-03-23 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article , John Hunter wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:58 PM, John Hunter > wrote: > > > I think we are pretty close to cleaning up issues and PRs related to > > v1.1.x, so I'd like to cut the release candidate this Thursday. Let's > > continue to hammer on closing open issues and pul

Re: [matplotlib-devel] matplotlib v1.1.1 (bugfix) rc1 on Thursday

2012-03-20 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article , John Hunter wrote: > I think we are pretty close to cleaning up issues and PRs related to > v1.1.x, so I'd like to cut the release candidate this Thursday. Let's > continue to hammer on closing open issues and pull requests, and flag > anything that needs to be addressed before th

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Suggestion for setupext.py darwin changes

2012-03-06 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <7a481fad7196495bbf32d41245c19...@gmail.com>, Ludwig Schwardt wrote: > Hi Russell, > > > At present all people buliding matplotlib on Mac OS X must edit > > setupext.py. I have modified setupext.py to make it work with Mac OS X > > ("darwin") for Apple's python, python.org (http:

[matplotlib-devel] Suggestion for setupext.py darwin changes

2012-03-01 Thread Russell E. Owen
At present all people buliding matplotlib on Mac OS X must edit setupext.py. I have modified setupext.py to make it work with Mac OS X ("darwin") for Apple's python, python.org python and presumably Homebrew python (since that uses /usr/local). I also included instructions for users of Fink and

[matplotlib-devel] Problem with proposed 1.0.1 release

2011-10-07 Thread Russell E. Owen
I'm running into an error building the Mac binary: d-69-91-185-129:/Archives/PythonPackages/matplotlib-1.0.1 rowen$ bdist_mpkg basedirlist is: ['/usr/local'] = === BUILDING MATPLOTLIB matplotlib: 1.0.1

Re: [matplotlib-devel] v1.1.0 branch created

2011-09-27 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article , Benjamin Root wrote: > The source tarball for the rc can be found here: > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.1.0/ > > binary builders can use this and upload the binaries there. Please let me > know when the windows and mac binaries are r

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Calling all Mac OSX users!

2011-08-30 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article , Benjamin Root wrote: > Ok, there has been a lot of useful discussion (for both MacOSX and Windows), > but in the end, I want to know this: Is it possible for matplotlib to > provide a single, recommended, fully-supported-by-us method for installing > our package (possibly for each

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Calling all Mac OSX users!

2011-08-17 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <4e4b5be2.8040...@hawaii.edu>, Eric Firing wrote: > On 08/16/2011 10:10 AM, John Hunter wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Benjamin > > Root wrote: > >> The mpl developers are getting very close to the long-awaited v1.1.0 > >> release > >> of matplotlib. Before we do so,

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Calling all Mac OSX users!

2011-08-16 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article , Benjamin Root wrote: > The mpl developers are getting very close to the long-awaited v1.1.0 release > of matplotlib. Before we do so, we are doing some final checking of the > documentation to make sure that all critical pieces of information iss > correct and up to date. > > In

Re: [matplotlib-devel] [Matplotlib-users] ipython intermittently segfaults when figure is closed.

2011-06-24 Thread Russell E. Owen
Dale: something is wrong with the way you are closing out issues on the old matplotlib tracker because the two of mine you closed out are getting an ever accumulating number of copies of the same closeout message from you. This is needless clutter on the old system, and means a lot of garbage

Re: [matplotlib-devel] matplotlib 1.0.1rc available for testing, building

2011-01-03 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article , John Hunter wrote: > We are long overdue on getting a bugfix release of 1.0.0 out, so I have > uploaded an rc for testing at > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.0.1/ > > Christoph and Russell -- if you have time could you build win32 and

Re: [matplotlib-devel] PATCH: fix libpng URLs for OS X makefile

2011-01-03 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <4d02914a.6050...@noaa.gov>, Christopher Barker wrote: > On 12/9/10 11:57 PM, Ludwig Schwardt wrote: > > This patch reminded me to ask why the builtin libpng, zlib and > > libfreetype on Mac OS 10.5 and later are not used to build Matplotlib, > > It may be because we still want to su

Re: [matplotlib-devel] trunk rev 8843 crash on Snow Leopard: fixed

2011-01-03 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article , "Russell E. Owen" wrote: > In article > mane.org>, > John Hunter wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Russell E. Owen > > wrote: > > > > > I built a binary installer for matplotlib trunk rev 8843 (because it >

Re: [matplotlib-devel] trunk rev 8843 crash on Snow Leopard

2011-01-03 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article , John Hunter wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Russell E. Owen > wrote: > > > I built a binary installer for matplotlib trunk rev 8843 (because it > > leaks memory less than 1.0.0 release). I built it the same way I built > >

[matplotlib-devel] trunk rev 8843 crash on Snow Leopard

2010-12-20 Thread Russell E. Owen
I built a binary installer for matplotlib trunk rev 8843 (because it leaks memory less than 1.0.0 release). I built it the same way I built the 1.0.0 binary on Mac OS X 10.4 using python.org Python 2.6.x (where x is pro

Re: [matplotlib-devel] memory leak in canvas.draw() in TkAgg

2010-12-14 Thread Russell E. Owen
s with or without the x > axis limits updating you suggested. I believe there have been other > memory leak fixes since the 1.0.0 release. > > Cheers, > Mike > > On 12/13/2010 08:35 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote: > > I also wanted to say: > > - Thank you for the patch.

Re: [matplotlib-devel] memory leak in canvas.draw() in TkAgg

2010-12-14 Thread Russell E. Owen
ieve there have been other > memory leak fixes since the 1.0.0 release. > > Cheers, > Mike > > On 12/13/2010 08:35 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote: > > I also wanted to say: > > - Thank you for the patch. I appreciate the chance to try a fix. > > - I doubt the issue

Re: [matplotlib-devel] memory leak in canvas.draw() in TkAgg

2010-12-13 Thread Russell E. Owen
I also wanted to say: - Thank you for the patch. I appreciate the chance to try a fix. - I doubt the issue is related to text because my scripts shows a memory leak even if the displayed text is never updated (comment out the line that modifies the x axis limits to see what I mean; though I confe

Re: [matplotlib-devel] memory leak in canvas.draw() in TkAgg

2010-12-13 Thread Russell E. Owen
vents the Text object from being freed. > > Can you apply the attached patch and let me know if it solves your issue? > > Mike > > On 12/10/2010 02:19 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote: > > You may have already seen this in the general mailing list, but I've > > found what

[matplotlib-devel] memory leak in canvas.draw() in TkAgg

2010-12-10 Thread Russell E. Owen
You may have already seen this in the general mailing list, but I've found what I think is a serious memory leak in matplotlib 1.0.0: it leaks memory every time canvas.draw() is called, at least when using TkAgg on unix and Mac. Admittedly many graphs do not need canvas.draw() to be called repe

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Release schedule for version 1.0.1?

2010-10-28 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <4cc9bcd8.60...@noaa.gov>, Christopher Barker wrote: > On 10/25/10 1:41 PM, Daniel Hyams wrote: > > It doesn't really insist on it right? There are MATPLOTLIBDIR and > > MPLCONFIGDIR environment variables. > > > You can set these env variables within your code, before import of > >

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Release schedule for version 1.0.1?

2010-10-25 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article , John Hunter wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Michael Droettboom > wrote: > >  On 10/22/2010 05:45 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote: > >> I'm curious when the next release of matplotlib is due. > >> > >> My application is suffering

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Release schedule for version 1.0.1?

2010-10-25 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <4cc22964.1050...@stsci.edu>, Michael Droettboom wrote: > On 10/22/2010 05:45 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote: > > I'm curious when the next release of matplotlib is due. > > > > My application is suffering badly from the issue that an incorrect font &g

[matplotlib-devel] Release schedule for version 1.0.1?

2010-10-22 Thread Russell E. Owen
I'm curious when the next release of matplotlib is due. My application is suffering badly from the issue that an incorrect font cache will cause matplotlib to fail (the application mysteriously exits partway through startup until the user deletes the font cache). That problem is allegedly fixed

Re: [matplotlib-devel] mac install 1.0.0

2010-10-22 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <1a051352-12ad-498e-a29d-31c66fb31...@nist.gov>, Paul Kienzle wrote: > Note a small issue on the install of matplotlib-1.0.0 python 2.6 mac > dmg. > > The files in mpl-data/images were not installed with read permissions > for all. > > This resulted in an error that _cidgcf was

Re: [matplotlib-devel] problems installing matplotlib 0.99 for pyhton 2.6 mac osx 10.5

2009-09-10 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <49f4595b-9a73-4c85-81aa-ceb6e58a7...@cs.stir.ac.uk>, Farhan Sheikh wrote: > Dear all, > > i have python 2.6 running on my mac osx 10.5, however when installing > the binary file provided, it says i need to have python 2.6 on my > machine. i dont understand why this is happening

Re: [matplotlib-devel] mkpg on OSX

2009-08-03 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <88e473830908011043u47782cf3qa37376e3caa17...@mail.gmail.com>, John Hunter wrote: > I tried testing the OSX binaries I built Friday on my local OSX laptop > today, and had a problem with the mkpg installer > > http://drop.io/xortel1/asset/matplotlib-0-99-0-rc1-py2-5-macosx10-5-zip >

[matplotlib-devel] matplotlib Mac binary aborts with 3rd party Tcl/Tk

2009-01-29 Thread Russell E. Owen
The current matplotlib Mac binary installer unfortunately reintroduces an old problem: it does not work if the user has a 3rd party Tcl/Tk installed (as anyone who uses Tkinter seriously would have). The solution is simple: if one is building a matplotlib Mac binary installer then please, pleas

Re: [matplotlib-devel] What would you like to see in a book about Matplotlib?

2009-01-05 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <8b2d7b4d0901050152p4c7487a8m21fb7fb823297...@mail.gmail.com>, "Sandro Tosi" wrote: > Hello and Happy 2009! > > I received the interesting proposal to author a book on Matplotlib, > the powerful 2D plotting library for Python. > > While preparing the arguments list, I'd like to hea

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Outdated pytz and dateutil

2008-09-23 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Russell E. Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > The versions of pytz and dateutil that are included with matplotlib > > 0.98.3 are outdat

[matplotlib-devel] Outdated pytz and dateutil

2008-09-18 Thread Russell E. Owen
The versions of pytz and dateutil that are included with matplotlib 0.98.3 are outdated. dateutil 1.2 is included, but 1.4.1 is available pytz: 2008c (from pypi) I am against including them at all (especially if they are installed even if the user already has the packages available). They are b

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Mac binary installer

2008-08-15 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Charlie Moad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > You can't put a readme in the zip file? > > > I think he was referring to the egg as a zip, which it technically is but > setuptools extracts it for you. I already find easy_install mysterious and unsettling

[matplotlib-devel] Mac binary installer

2008-08-13 Thread Russell E. Owen
I have a few questions and comments about the Mac binary of matplotlib 0.98.3: matplotlib-0.98.3-py2.5-macosx-10.3.egg.zip A few things struck me as scary: - There are no instructions; when you unzip it you get just an egg and that's it. I was able to find the magic incantation on the web,

Re: [matplotlib-devel] [Matplotlib-users] eggs or pythonmac packages on OS X?

2007-12-11 Thread Russell E Owen
At 10:03 AM -0800 2007-12-05, Christopher Barker wrote: >Russell E Owen wrote: >>At 10:08 AM -0500 2007-12-05, Stephen Uhlhorn wrote: >>>Just for my edification, why can't the egg version be linked >>>against/include a different Tcl/Tk? >> >>If you mean