[matplotlib-devel] mpl1: models, projections, other comments

2007-07-22 Thread Eric Firing
John, You are going great guns with mpl1; I am trying to get spun up on traits, and to understand where you are going with mpl1. In general I like what I see--as expected. Regarding the following comments: I recognize that you are engaged in a sketching activity, and I may be thinking premat

Re: [matplotlib-devel] mpl1: models, projections, other comments

2007-07-22 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 10:41:27PM -1000, Eric Firing wrote: > You raised the question of 3D. I don't know anything about fancy 3D > with hardware acceleration etc., but for the simplest 3D it seems like > everything can be done at the model stage of the transformation; > everything after that

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-22 Thread Darren Dale
>> Im attaching a patch > Is the patch against current SVN? It was one version out of date. Here is a new one, against 2533 Index: mpltest.py === --- mpltest.py (revision 2533) +++ mpltest.py (working copy) @@ -5,43 +5,14 @@ import

Re: [matplotlib-devel] mpl1: models, projections, other comments

2007-07-22 Thread John Hunter
On 7/22/07, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are going great guns with mpl1; I am trying to get spun up on > traits, and to understand where you are going with mpl1. In general I > like what I see--as expected. Regarding the following comments: I > recognize that you are engaged in a

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-22 Thread John Hunter
On 7/21/07, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im attaching a patch, it includes lots of changes to mplconfig.py, a realistic > mplrc.conf file (feel free to rename it to mpl.conf or matplotlib.conf or > whatever seems standard), and a backup of that .conf file. The mpltest lets > me try you

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-22 Thread Darren Dale
Hi John, On Sunday 22 July 2007 9:51:05 am John Hunter wrote: > On 7/21/07, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2) It would be nice to be able to write a default file that has > > everything commented out with the exception of backend.use and numerix. > > We comment out all the parameters i

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-22 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 11:43:31AM -0400, Darren Dale wrote: > The issue of configuration has come up several times on the mailing > lists over the last few years, and Fernando's tconfig feels like the > right solution. On the other hand, I can't be too enthusiastic about > pushing for inclusion in

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-22 Thread John Hunter
On 7/22/07, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the other hand, I can't be too enthusiastic about pushing for inclusion in > matplotlib in the near future, because I havent been able to install traits > as a separate package. At the moment, the following command Well, we always have matplotli

Re: [matplotlib-devel] [Enthought-dev] rcParams and validation

2007-07-22 Thread John Hunter
On 7/22/07, Dave Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, why did you choose to install enthought.debug? The current source > for enthought.traits requires only enthought.etsconfig (which has no > other dependencies) and enthought.util (which, without extras, requires > only enthought.traits.)

Re: [matplotlib-devel] [Enthought-dev] rcParams and validation

2007-07-22 Thread Darren Dale
On Sunday 22 July 2007 12:12:40 pm Dave Peterson wrote: > Gael Varoquaux wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 11:43:31AM -0400, Darren Dale wrote: > >> The issue of configuration has come up several times on the mailing > >> lists over the last few years, and Fernando's tconfig feels like the > >> ri

Re: [matplotlib-devel] [Enthought-dev] rcParams and validation

2007-07-22 Thread Darren Dale
On Sunday 22 July 2007 1:04:10 pm Darren Dale wrote: > I think the problem lies in traits.ui, which is looking for > enthought.resource, which requires pyface. Scratch that. I thought I remembered that pyface was getting pulled in by enthought.resource, but I think that was wrong. Somewhere along

Re: [matplotlib-devel] [Enthought-dev] rcParams and validation

2007-07-22 Thread Darren Dale
On Sunday 22 July 2007 12:46:50 pm John Hunter wrote: > The following, however, gives me a broken install: > > sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/enthought* > sudo easy_install -f > http://code.enthought.com/enstaller/eggs/source/unstable > "enthought.traits < 3.0a" > > eg, with

Re: [matplotlib-devel] [Enthought-dev] rcParams and validation

2007-07-22 Thread Dave Peterson
John Hunter wrote: > On 7/22/07, Dave Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hmm, why did you choose to install enthought.debug? The current source >> for enthought.traits requires only enthought.etsconfig (which has no >> other dependencies) and enthought.util (which, without extras, require

Re: [matplotlib-devel] [Enthought-dev] rcParams and validation

2007-07-22 Thread Dave Peterson
Dave Peterson wrote: > It does look like one of the dependencies in enthought.traits is wrong > then. In particular, it was thought that enthought.resource was only > required if you actually *used* Traits UI features. I just looked at > the code and the only import, in traits, of a package f

Re: [matplotlib-devel] [Enthought-dev] rcParams and validation

2007-07-22 Thread John Hunter
On 7/22/07, Dave Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just uploaded a new source tarball that I believe should have this fixed > so that you don't need to install enthought.resource. Basically, I Bingo, I am now getting a working install with sudo easy_install -f http://code.enthought.com/enst