Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-17 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:31:03PM -0500, John Hunter wrote: On 7/16/07, Eric Firing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are any real, live projects outside of enthought making major use of traits? Or would we be the first? I am happy to be the first at this point -- enthought has done a lot to

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-17 Thread Michael Droettboom
Gael Varoquaux wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:31:03PM -0500, John Hunter wrote: I am happy to be the first at this point -- enthought has done a lot to support traits. Traits has one of the most impressive pieces of technical documentation in the scientific python community. I

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-17 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 08:01:41AM -0400, Michael Droettboom wrote: TraitsUI seems really cool, but there are a couple of reasons I think that should probably be considered lower priority. For one, it would need to be generalized and ported (backend-ed) for all of matplotlib's many gui

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-17 Thread Darren Dale
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 08:01:41 am Michael Droettboom wrote: Gael Varoquaux wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:31:03PM -0500, John Hunter wrote: I am happy to be the first at this point -- enthought has done a lot to support traits. Traits has one of the most impressive pieces of

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-17 Thread Darren Dale
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 09:15:15 am Darren Dale wrote: I'm really impressed with how readable and well organized the code is in ipython1. It looks like their approach to configuration has been carefully considered. Any chance we can follow their lead? It looks like it would be a good fit: we

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-17 Thread Darren Dale
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 09:33:47 am John Hunter wrote: We should also consider getting out a 0.91 release as soon as we can finish the numpification, because Michael has done a lot of good work. So much to do I'd like to add the dict-based validation scheme for 0.91. It should be quick,

[matplotlib-devel] negative log transforms

2007-07-17 Thread Paul Kienzle
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 08:33:47AM -0500, John Hunter wrote: Speaking of branches, we may need to seriously consider a branch here, mpl1. The changes here may involve breaking a fair amount of code, which I don't mind doing to get it right, but I'm somewhat inclined to branch off here for

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-17 Thread John Hunter
On 7/17/07, Darren Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to add the dict-based validation scheme for 0.91. It should be quick, and then I can focus on traits and a new config scheme, in an mpl1 branch if we decide that is best. Sounds like a good plan.

Re: [matplotlib-devel] negative log transforms

2007-07-17 Thread Perry Greenfield
This is exactly the sort of thing that I thought a transform approach would make easier to do. So if it isn't urgent, waiting probably would be better. (by the way, we see exactly the same sort of log scale you propose in one of our older (non-python) packages. So there is a call for this

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-17 Thread Darren Dale
Sorry for double posting. Apparently the original posting was html formatted, and looked nonsensical. Hopefully this one is more clear: On Tuesday 17 July 2007 02:31:02 pm Darren Dale wrote: On Tuesday 17 July 2007 09:33:47 am John Hunter wrote: Speaking of branches, we may need to seriously

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-17 Thread Fernando Perez
On 7/17/07, Michael Droettboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TraitsUI seems really cool, but there are a couple of reasons I think that should probably be considered lower priority. For one, it would need to be generalized and ported (backend-ed) for all of matplotlib's many gui backends. Also,

[matplotlib-devel] Steeling some of you colormaps

2007-07-17 Thread Gael Varoquaux
I have written a small script that uses pylab to retrieve the data for the MPL colormaps. I am thinking of checking in both the script, and the resulting data in Mayavi2 (FBSD licenced). Can I do such a thing (stealing colormaps ?). Cheers

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-17 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, this is an important discussion also for us (ipython), so I'll go in some detail into things. It would be great if out of this we got something that both ipython and matplotlib could reuse for the long haul, though I'm not sure (in a sense, ipython has some nastier requirements that mpl