Re: [matplotlib-devel] requesting permission to remove traits and configobj

2008-12-12 Thread Darren Dale
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:10 PM, John Hunter jdh2...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: There has been a report at the bugtracker complaining that matplotlib is overwriting an existing installation of configobj. I had a look at the code

Re: [matplotlib-devel] requesting permission to remove traits and configobj

2008-12-12 Thread Michael Droettboom
Darren Dale wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:10 PM, John Hunter jdh2...@gmail.com mailto:jdh2...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com mailto:dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: There has been a report at the bugtracker complaining that

Re: [matplotlib-devel] requesting permission to remove traits and configobj

2008-12-11 Thread Michael Droettboom
Darren Dale wrote: We have a lot of people contributing to mpl, and approaching or just after release time we need some mechanism for stabilizing the tested feature set of the release candidate while allowing other development to proceed, and branches are the natural

Re: [matplotlib-devel] requesting permission to remove traits and configobj

2008-12-11 Thread Andrew Straw
Michael Droettboom wrote: Darren Dale wrote: Having worked with bzr and launchpad for a few months now, I wonder if we might consider such an approach in the future. I know there has been some experimentation with a git repository, is git supported on windows now? I'm not sold

Re: [matplotlib-devel] requesting permission to remove traits and configobj

2008-12-11 Thread Drain, Theodore R
thoughts… Ted From: John Hunter [mailto:jdh2...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 8:10 PM To: Darren Dale Cc: matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [matplotlib-devel] requesting permission to remove traits and configobj On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Darren Dale dsdal

Re: [matplotlib-devel] requesting permission to remove traits and configobj

2008-12-11 Thread Jordan Mantha
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Andrew Straw straw...@astraw.com wrote: Michael Droettboom wrote: Darren Dale wrote: Having worked with bzr and launchpad for a few months now, I wonder if we might consider such an approach in the future. I know there has been some experimentation with a

Re: [matplotlib-devel] requesting permission to remove traits and configobj

2008-12-11 Thread Andrew Straw
thoughts… Ted *From:* John Hunter [mailto:jdh2...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, December 10, 2008 8:10 PM *To:* Darren Dale *Cc:* matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* Re: [matplotlib-devel] requesting permission to remove traits and configobj On Wed, Dec 10

Re: [matplotlib-devel] requesting permission to remove traits and configobj

2008-12-11 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 01:37:01PM -0800, Andrew Straw wrote: Prabhu Ramachandran has also done similar things for mayavi2 using VTK's image comparison (see compare_image_with_saved_image in https://svn.enthought.com/enthought/browser/Mayavi/trunk/integrationtests/mayavi/common.py ). Yeah,

[matplotlib-devel] requesting permission to remove traits and configobj

2008-12-10 Thread Darren Dale
There has been a report at the bugtracker complaining that matplotlib is overwriting an existing installation of configobj. I had a look at the code and thought the bug report must be a mistake or windows specific, but I just saw similar behavior on my linux system. I would like to simply remove

Re: [matplotlib-devel] requesting permission to remove traits and configobj

2008-12-10 Thread John Hunter
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Darren Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There has been a report at the bugtracker complaining that matplotlib is overwriting an existing installation of configobj. I had a look at the code and thought the bug report must be a mistake or windows specific, but I