Re: [matplotlib-devel] crazy ideas for MPL

2009-07-10 Thread Robert Kern
On 2009-07-09 23:19, Andrew Straw wrote: Erik Tollerud wrote: 2. Installation of traits or traitsgui should not be a necessity for MPL... perhaps this will change in the future, but it's currently a far bigger task to get traits and traits UI working on an arbitrary system than it is to get

Re: [matplotlib-devel] crazy ideas for MPL

2009-07-09 Thread Erik Tollerud
Personally, I think traits must be kept out of MPL, for three main reasons: 1. As Eric Bruning points out, while traits is a very powerful tool, it also closes a lot of doors by forcing everything to be written in a trait-like fashion for it to play nice with everything else. While this is great

Re: [matplotlib-devel] crazy ideas for MPL

2009-07-09 Thread Andrew Straw
Erik Tollerud wrote: Personally, I think traits must be kept out of MPL, for three main reasons: As these comments are in respose to my email, let me again state the main point of my email: My main feeling about MPL is that there's just too much layout happening to keep using the

Re: [matplotlib-devel] crazy ideas for MPL

2009-07-02 Thread Eric Bruning
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Andrew Strawstraw...@astraw.com wrote: Gael Varoquaux wrote: On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 08:39:30AM -0500, John Hunter wrote: Anyone interested?  And if so, feel free to suggest topics or weigh in on some I listed. Actually, I have something I would like to

Re: [matplotlib-devel] crazy ideas for MPL

2009-07-01 Thread Andrew Straw
Gael Varoquaux wrote: On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 08:39:30AM -0500, John Hunter wrote: Anyone interested? And if so, feel free to suggest topics or weigh in on some I listed. Actually, I have something I would like to discuss, but never really could pull myself together to do it. I