[matplotlib-devel] 0.98.5 - Doc building question on matplotlibrc

2008-12-14 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hello, while preparing the debian package update for 0.98.5 I went thru a problem: we remove doc/mpl_data/matplotlibrc because it will be modified (to change backend (that now is set to MacOSX in the tarball distributed..?)) and up to now it wasn't used. Now, doc/make.py fails because of shutil

Re: [matplotlib-devel] 0.98.5 - Doc building question on matplotlibrc

2008-12-14 Thread Darren Dale
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Hello, > while preparing the debian package update for 0.98.5 I went thru a > problem: we remove doc/mpl_data/matplotlibrc because it will be > modified (to change backend (that now is set to MacOSX in the tarball > distributed..?)) and up to

Re: [matplotlib-devel] os x egg fubar?

2008-12-14 Thread Charlie Moad
This build should be the same as all the previous. I do them as I documented on the ipython pages. bdist_mpkg has been flat broke the times I have tried it. bdist_egg seems pretty helpless too due to setuptools lack of understanding of osx architectures. Most people get a successful instal

Re: [matplotlib-devel] os x egg fubar?

2008-12-14 Thread John Hunter
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 3:24 PM, John Hunter wrote: > I think the src egg approach for os x is hopeless because too many > people are having problems with architecture on png and zlib > dependencies, and we don't have a lot of control over this because > they are getting these dependencies from a

[matplotlib-devel] Binary release process

2008-12-14 Thread Charlie Moad
First of all let me apologize for the problems we have been seeing with the binaries as of late. Frankly the root of the problem might be my detachment from the matplotlib source for some time. Unfortunately due to my time constraints, this won't be changing soon. I used to think being somew

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Binary release process

2008-12-14 Thread Darren Dale
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Charlie Moad wrote: > First of all let me apologize for the problems we have been > seeing with the binaries as of late. Frankly the root of the problem > might be my detachment from the matplotlib source for some time. > Unfortunately due to my time constra

Re: [matplotlib-devel] 0.98.5 - Doc building question on matplotlibrc

2008-12-14 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hello, On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 17:07, Darren Dale wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> >> Hello, >> while preparing the debian package update for 0.98.5 I went thru a >> problem: we remove doc/mpl_data/matplotlibrc because it will be >> modified (to change backend (tha

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Binary release process

2008-12-14 Thread Darren Dale
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Michael Abshoff wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Darren Dale wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Charlie Moad wrote: > > Hi, > > >> First of all let me apologize for the problems we have been > >> seeing with the binaries as of late. Frank

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Binary release process

2008-12-14 Thread Charlie Moad
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Darren Dale wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Charlie Moad wrote: >> >> First of all let me apologize for the problems we have been >> seeing with the binaries as of late. Frankly the root of the problem >> might be my detachment from the matplotlib

Re: [matplotlib-devel] 0.98.5 - Doc building question on matplotlibrc

2008-12-14 Thread Darren Dale
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 17:07, Darren Dale wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Sandro Tosi wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >> while preparing the debian package update for 0.98.5 I went thru a > >> problem: we remove doc/mpl_dat

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Binary release process

2008-12-14 Thread Darren Dale
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Charlie Moad wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Darren Dale wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Charlie Moad wrote: > >> > >> First of all let me apologize for the problems we have been > >> seeing with the binaries as of late. Frankly the r

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Binary release process

2008-12-14 Thread Michael Abshoff
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Darren Dale wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Michael Abshoff > wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Darren Dale wrote: >> > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Charlie Moad wrote: Hi, >> The express edition can only produce 32 bit binaries, bu

Re: [matplotlib-devel] 0.98.5 - Doc building question on matplotlibrc

2008-12-14 Thread John Hunter
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Well, what I'm actually asking is: can I use any matplotlibrc file (be > it from any location in the tarball or forged during build process) or > the one in doc/mpl_data has something specific to documentation that > needs to be preserved. In

Re: [matplotlib-devel] error installing matplotlib-0.98.5

2008-12-14 Thread fraka6
I have experience the same problem with easy_install but it is working with aptitude, so do : sudo aptitude install python-matplotlib -Fran6 Charlie Moad wrote: > I > I'm not seeing this on OSX. Is anyone else experiencing this issue? > > - Charlie > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Neal B

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Binary release process

2008-12-14 Thread John Hunter
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Michael Abshoff wrote: > Slightly OT: What is the preferred way to submit bug fixes? The sf > tracker? I have two tiny build fixes for 0.98.3 (that also apply to Even though it's not a FAQ, we have a FAQ entry for it :-) http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/

Re: [matplotlib-devel] error installing matplotlib-0.98.5

2008-12-14 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 07:30:19AM -0800, fraka6 wrote: > I have experienced the same problem with easy_install on ubuntu-8.4.10 but > it is working with aptitude, so I have done : > sudo aptitude install python-matplotlib Yes, but unfortunately, not every OS has a good packaging system like apt

Re: [matplotlib-devel] error installing matplotlib-0.98.5

2008-12-14 Thread fraka6
It is a little annoying because I wast thinking of using Extension module from distutils.core to create my library setup.py that seems to use easy_install. As suggested in my http://fraka6.blogspot.com/2008/12/swig-and-python.html blog I will try to use scipy.mlab interface instead. Yes aptitude

Re: [matplotlib-devel] error installing matplotlib-0.98.5

2008-12-14 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 07:33:57PM -0800, fraka6 wrote: > It is a little annoying because I wast thinking of using Extension module > from distutils.core to create my library setup.py that seems to use > easy_install. AFAIK, Extension doesn't need setuptools (setuptools is the libraryy providing e

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Loss of filled vs. stroked distinction by Collections

2008-12-14 Thread Eric Firing
Eric Bruning wrote: > I think of artists as having visual properties that persist (e.g., > filled vs. outlined, a colormap with min and max values) even as data > associated with the artist is changed. In the edge case described > below, this doesn't seem to hold true. > > I have code that animate