Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-09 Thread Michael Droettboom
Sorry -- I was too thick to get the reference. Maybe if you had included a cute picture of a kitten eating a cheeseburger or riding and invisible bicycle or something... This list needs more of those ;) Cheers, Mike Tom Holroyd wrote: > Sorry, I just don't like that word. And the "UR ..." was

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-08 Thread Tom Holroyd
Sorry, I just don't like that word. And the "UR ..." was a lame reference to LOL Cats. :-) Sorry, sorry, I'll go away now. P.S. I love matplotlib. On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 22:53 +0100, Gael Varoquaux wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 04:49:00PM -0500, Michael Droettboom wrote: > > I don't think "UR DO

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-08 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 04:49:00PM -0500, Michael Droettboom wrote: > I don't think "UR DOIN IT WRONG" is an entirely correct assessment, > however. Much of this change can be considered refactoring wrt to the > high-level public API. Refactoring is often defined (in test driven development) a

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-08 Thread John Hunter
On Jan 8, 2008 1:49 PM, Michael Droettboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for enlightening us. This overloaded and contentious word > will be replaced. BTW Michael, ready to go when you are JDH - Check out the new S

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-08 Thread Michael Droettboom
Thank you for enlightening us. This overloaded and contentious word will be replaced. I don't think "UR DOIN IT WRONG" is an entirely correct assessment, however. Much of this change can be considered refactoring wrt to the high-level public API. For instance, I believe basemap only had to

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-08 Thread Tom Holroyd
UR DOIN IT WRONG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refactoring On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 10:48 -0800, John Hunter wrote: > To check out the trunk with the latest transforms refactoring: The word refactoring applies to cases of code cleanup and so on. Refactoring implies functional equivalence. Dr. Tom

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-08 Thread James Amundson
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:54:38 -1000 Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Straw wrote: > > Something I haven't seen addressed on the numpy list (or here) is > > using hg or bzr to mirror an svn repository. What would be the > > added advantage to the project of using a DVCS if all the > >

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-08 Thread John Hunter
On Jan 8, 2008 8:11 AM, Michael Droettboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also -- we probably want a news item to say something like this: I just added MIGRATION.txt to the trunk -- after you do the merge, we can post this document to provide the migration instructions. I've tried to add all your t

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-08 Thread Michael Droettboom
Also -- we probably want a news item to say something like this: The experimental transforms refactoring changes have been merged into SVN trunk. While this version is passing all examples and unit tests, there may be changes that subtly break things that used to work, raise nasty except

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-08 Thread Michael Droettboom
John Hunter wrote: > Michael, since you know more about this than anyone, you should > probably spearhead the svn reorganization and let people know when the > changes become effective with some advance notice. I will update the > website with pointers to the relevant docs (your API_CHANGES and >

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-08 Thread Michael Droettboom
John Hunter wrote: > On Jan 7, 2008 2:37 PM, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> (At the moment I can't compile the branch--I just sent Mike a message >> about that off the list, with voluminous output.) >> >> It seems like what is needed is not exactly a merge operation but simply >> a

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-07 Thread Eric Firing
John Hunter wrote: [...] > Michael, how onerous was it for you to do the merges using svn -- this > seems to be the most significant problem with svn in my reading of > David's summary. Here is a new thread related to merging, and the difference between svn and a DVCS: http://www.mail-archive.c

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-07 Thread Eric Firing
Andrew Straw wrote: > Something I haven't seen addressed on the numpy list (or here) is using > hg or bzr to mirror an svn repository. What would be the added advantage > to the project of using a DVCS if all the DVCS-ophiles would simply sync > the svn tree? There has been numpy discussion of

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-07 Thread Andrew Straw
Something I haven't seen addressed on the numpy list (or here) is using hg or bzr to mirror an svn repository. What would be the added advantage to the project of using a DVCS if all the DVCS-ophiles would simply sync the svn tree? Eric Firing wrote: > John Hunter wrote: >> On Jan 7, 2008 2:37

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-07 Thread Eric Firing
John Hunter wrote: > On Jan 7, 2008 2:37 PM, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> All this brings to mind the discussion taking place over the last week >> on the numpy list regarding switching from svn to bzr or hg. >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.numeric.general/18130 >>

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-07 Thread John Hunter
On Jan 7, 2008 2:37 PM, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (At the moment I can't compile the branch--I just sent Mike a message > about that off the list, with voluminous output.) > > It seems like what is needed is not exactly a merge operation but simply > a renaming of the trunk and the

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-07 Thread Eric Firing
John et al., (At the moment I can't compile the branch--I just sent Mike a message about that off the list, with voluminous output.) It seems like what is needed is not exactly a merge operation but simply a renaming of the trunk and the branch. Maybe some doc files need to be merged, but tha

[matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-07 Thread John Hunter
Now that the 0.91.2 release is out, I am inclined to merge Michael's transforms branch into the trunk. Since many people rely on svn, we probably need to advertise this move broadly, with a news item on the web page and announcements on the mailing lists, with instructions on how to checkout the