[matplotlib-devel] Next release

2008-12-15 Thread Michael Droettboom
It's been an unusually bumpy release cycle through no fault of the people involved. We've just been unlucky this time, I guess... ;) So -- more bad news: Julien pointed out a very serious bug this morning, that may warrant another release... The gridlines jump around while panning and zoomin

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Binary release process

2008-12-15 Thread John Hunter
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Charlie Moad wrote: > First of all let me apologize for the problems we have been > ...snip... > seeing with the binaries as of late. Frankly the root of the problem > seeing osx fat binaries with 4 architectures! I am more than happy to > continue to contri

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Next release

2008-12-15 Thread John Hunter
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > 4) Automating (scripting) more of the process where possible (I'm sure > that's not straightforward... just thinking out loud) > > 5) Release formal "release candidates" -- IMHO these would be most > useful if we expect more people to d

Re: [matplotlib-devel] errors building docs

2008-12-15 Thread Darren Dale
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:32 AM, John Hunter wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Darren Dale wrote: > > >> I haven't been able to get to the root of this problem, but an > "svn-clean" > >> in the doc directory always fixes it for me. > > > > I tried that but the problem persists. I have s

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Next release

2008-12-15 Thread Michael Abshoff
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:15 AM, John Hunter wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: Hi, > I have access to a win32 and linux machine that are up and on the > network most of the time, and could use these as build/test bots for > those platforms. I have an OS X la

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

2008-12-15 Thread Chris.Barker
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 variety of providers. Maybe it's

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Different behaviour of mathtext and LaTeX rendering

2008-12-15 Thread Michael Droettboom
Darren Dale wrote: > > I think it would be worth stating in the docs that # $ % & ~ _ ^ \ { } > \( \) \[ \] have special meaning in latex but not in regular mpl text, > so buyer beware. It might be nice if mpl regular text rendered the > escaped version of all these characters the same way latex

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

2008-12-15 Thread Eric Bruning
Thanks for the fix - works for me on this afternoon's SVN. -Eric On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Eric Firing wrote: > 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 >> associat