Re: [matplotlib-devel] Better support for setuptools, WAS: building with python-2.3

2007-04-05 Thread Andrew Straw
Robert Kern wrote: > Oh, you're requiring setuptools now? I didn't notice that. Cool. > Just for Python 2.3 so that we could sanitize the setup.py a little. (Namely for the backport of the package_data field to setup().) It's not required for Python >= 2.4 since package_data is already in stock

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Scatter behavior for color field

2007-04-05 Thread Matthieu Brucher
I don't quite understand: what kind of "c" are you passing in, what is the original code doing with it, and what should it do with it? (I find both the original and the suggested code hard to understand, which makes me think that neither is actually what we want.) c is a named argument of th

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Scatter behavior for color field

2007-04-05 Thread Eric Firing
Matthieu Brucher wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to display a scatter plot in 3D, and it calls the 2D scatter > plot, in axes.py. This method tests for validity of the color argument > in line 3777 : > > if not is_string_like(c) and iterable(c) and len(c)==len(x): > colors = Non

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Better support for setuptools, WAS: building with python-2.3

2007-04-05 Thread Robert Kern
John Hunter wrote: > On 4/5/07, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The purpose of ez_setup.py was to give people a migration path such that they >> could write project that used setuptools, but ensure that their users >> wouldn't >> have to go install another package themselves. >> >> It

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Better support for setuptools, WAS: building with python-2.3

2007-04-05 Thread John Hunter
On 4/5/07, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The purpose of ez_setup.py was to give people a migration path such that they > could write project that used setuptools, but ensure that their users wouldn't > have to go install another package themselves. > > It's deprecated now. Don't use it.

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Better support for setuptools, WAS: building with python-2.3

2007-04-05 Thread Andrew Straw
Robert Kern wrote: > John Hunter wrote: > >> On 4/5/07, Edin Salkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> This would make installing setuptools even easier, since the newest >>> ez_setup/seuptools would be downloaded by the user/developer every >>> time a "svn update;python setup.py instal

[matplotlib-devel] Scatter behavior for color field

2007-04-05 Thread Matthieu Brucher
Hi, I'm trying to display a scatter plot in 3D, and it calls the 2D scatter plot, in axes.py. This method tests for validity of the color argument in line 3777 : if not is_string_like(c) and iterable(c) and len(c)==len(x): colors = None else: colors = ( colorC

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Better support for setuptools, WAS: building with python-2.3

2007-04-05 Thread Robert Kern
John Hunter wrote: > On 4/5/07, Edin Salkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This would make installing setuptools even easier, since the newest >> ez_setup/seuptools would be downloaded by the user/developer every >> time a "svn update;python setup.py install" is issued. >> >> Are the above chan

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Better support for setuptools, WAS: building with python-2.3

2007-04-05 Thread John Hunter
On 4/5/07, Edin Salkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This would make installing setuptools even easier, since the newest > ez_setup/seuptools would be downloaded by the user/developer every > time a "svn update;python setup.py install" is issued. > > Are the above changes OK? I'm not sure I see

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Better support for setuptools, WAS: building with python-2.3

2007-04-05 Thread Darren Dale
On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:44:36 am Edin Salkovic wrote: > On 4/5/07, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I considered this when setuptools became a requirement for python-2.3 > > installs, but decided against it. My reasoning was that the unfamiliar > > user would go to install matplotlib

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Better support for setuptools, WAS: building with python-2.3

2007-04-05 Thread Darren Dale
On Thursday 05 April 2007 4:29:00 am Edin Salkovic wrote: > On 3/3/07, John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2/23/07, Andrew Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I figured I would be a good crash test dummy to see how easy > > it was to install setuptools, so I poked around and found the ez

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Better support for setuptools, WAS: building with python-2.3

2007-04-05 Thread Edin Salkovic
On 4/5/07, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I considered this when setuptools became a requirement for python-2.3 > installs, but decided against it. My reasoning was that the unfamiliar user > would go to install matplotlib, and see setup.py and ez_setup and get > confused. Maybe it should

Re: [matplotlib-devel] when to deprecate numeric and numarray?

2007-04-05 Thread Edin Salkovic
On 4/5/07, Bill Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I suggest instead 'npy'. It is already used extensively in the C > API of Numpy so it has strong precedent as an abbreviation. It also > *looks* to me like an abbreviation for 'numpy' as opposed to "number > of points (np)" or something else.

[matplotlib-devel] Better support for setuptools, WAS: building with python-2.3

2007-04-05 Thread Edin Salkovic
On 3/3/07, John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/23/07, Andrew Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I figured I would be a good crash test dummy to see how easy > it was to install setuptools, so I poked around and found the ez_setup > and am off to the races. I added a friendly exception to