Re: [matplotlib-devel] Setuptools and release candidate testing

2013-07-24 Thread Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
On Jul 24, 2013, at 7:23 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: Part of this is due to the change to setuptools/distribute, Even though I was the one who spearheaded the move to setuptools, I'm wondering whether we shouldn't examine backtracking on some of this for the 1.4.x release. I don't think s

[matplotlib-devel] Setuptools and release candidate testing

2013-07-24 Thread Michael Droettboom
First, I should say out loud that I'm personally embarrassed by how long it's taken to go from release candidate to a final release in the 1.3.0 cycle. For those that haven't been following along the hold ups have all been along the lines of showstoppers like "won't install on platform X", so