Re: [matplotlib-devel] breakage

2007-07-19 Thread John Hunter
On 7/19/07, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please let me know if you are still online (I know it is very late in > Germany); otherwise I may have to revert your changes until the problems > are fixed. Eric, since it looks like you have not reverted these changes, I went ahead and did so

Re: [matplotlib-devel] breakage

2007-07-19 Thread Eric Firing
Darren Dale wrote: [...] >> The point is that although users will have to *have* numpy, they will >> not yet have to convert all their other packages to numpy; if they have >> extension packages built on numarray, for example, and accessed via code >> using matplotlib.numerix, everything will still

Re: [matplotlib-devel] breakage

2007-07-19 Thread Eric Firing
Darren Dale wrote: > Hi Eric, > > On Thursday 19 July 2007 02:10:03 pm Eric Firing wrote: >> unless John or someone else >> contradicts me I request that you restore the original numerix, or >> something like it, so that users' external code can still use numerix to >> deal with Numeric and/or num

Re: [matplotlib-devel] breakage

2007-07-19 Thread Darren Dale
Hi Eric, On Thursday 19 July 2007 02:10:03 pm Eric Firing wrote: > unless John or someone else > contradicts me I request that you restore the original numerix, or > something like it, so that users' external code can still use numerix to > deal with Numeric and/or numarray code and arrays. I tho

Re: [matplotlib-devel] breakage

2007-07-19 Thread Eric Firing
Norbert, Cancel my last message. I panicked. It looks like the problem with my attempt to run backend_driver.py was that your changes required deletion of the build directory and/or previous matplotlib installation; after doing that, backend_driver.py runs. The comment about numerix is still

[matplotlib-devel] breakage

2007-07-19 Thread Eric Firing
Norbert, In addition to the problem that numerix was supposed to retain support for Numeric and numarray for the time being, for external use, there is the problem that all examples are currently broken. Please let me know if you are still online (I know it is very late in Germany); otherwise