Re: [matplotlib-devel] [Numpy-discussion] Sphinx custom extension mess, and patches

2009-02-16 Thread Robert Kern
e: http://sphinx.googlecode.com/svn/contrib/trunk/numpyext/ SVN-using projects could use svn:externals to include these in their projects without diverging the code. I really don't know why this plan changed. Pauli? -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an

Re: [matplotlib-devel] traits?

2009-05-18 Thread Robert Kern
ick it under matplotlib's namespace. I really don't want to go back to having to fix people's broken installations again. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma

Re: [matplotlib-devel] traits?

2009-05-18 Thread Robert Kern
On 2009-05-18 20:05, Darren Dale wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Robert Kern <mailto:robert.k...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On 2009-05-18 19:07, Andrew Straw wrote: > > I've been hacking away at adding support for "dropped spines" to MPL >

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Units issue

2009-05-21 Thread Robert Kern
oing exactly this in a generic fashion for times or anything else: https://svn.enthought.com/svn/enthought/Chaco/trunk/enthought/chaco/scales/ It was written to be self-contained so that it could be shared with matplotlib or anything else that need it. -- Robert Kern "I have come to

Re: [matplotlib-devel] crazy ideas for MPL

2009-07-10 Thread Robert Kern
lways use the > Ubuntu/Debian packages). Traits itself is pretty trivial. There is one C extension that has no library dependencies like libfreetype. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt t

Re: [matplotlib-devel] [Enthought-Dev] Ctypes based prototype of PyOS_InputHook for wx 2.8 and 2.9

2009-07-16 Thread Robert Kern
. I do not see such chunkiness with -wthread. It would be worth exploring a Cython alternative to see if it is just ctypes and general Python overhead to blame. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attem

Re: [matplotlib-devel] [SciPy-user] [Numpy-discussion] [ANN] Announcing the SciPy conference schedule

2009-07-17 Thread Robert Kern
t without > liability A wiki page would probably be the best thing given the short time frame. I recommend either the Saga or the Vagabond hotels for keeping costs down and staying close to campus. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that

Re: [matplotlib-devel] [IPython-dev] [Enthought-Dev] Ctypes based prototype of PyOS_InputHook for wx 2.8 and 2.9

2009-07-17 Thread Robert Kern
#1 but still noticeably chunky. Reducing the sleep down to 0.01 instead of 0.05 made things appreciably smooth. I thought I noticed a tiny bit of chunkiness, but I certainly didn't do a double-blind trial. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless e

Re: [matplotlib-devel] [Enthought-Dev] [IPython-dev] Ctypes based prototype of PyOS_InputHook for wx 2.8 and 2.9

2009-07-17 Thread Robert Kern
ch.  But, until wx supports > monitoring stdin from within the event loop, we are stuck with polling. Can you describe the patch you are putting together for wxPython? or is it wxWidgets? Perhaps there is a way for us to monkeypatch the same approach into old versions. -- Robert Kern "

Re: [matplotlib-devel] [IPython-dev] [Enthought-Dev] Ctypes based prototype of PyOS_InputHook for wx 2.8 and 2.9

2009-07-17 Thread Robert Kern
ce between my ctypes prototype and the patch > for wxPython. Which approach? #1? -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Including mathtex in matplotlib

2009-07-29 Thread Robert Kern
separate and release a tarball that includes all of them side by side? You can even have an installation script that will run the setups for each. Even better, this installation script wouldn't use distutils, so you don't have to hack all of this "optional package" stuff in

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Including mathtex in matplotlib

2009-07-29 Thread Robert Kern
On 2009-07-29 15:29, Robert Kern wrote: > On 2009-07-29 08:17, John Hunter wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: >>> I think we need (at least as a transitional stopgap) a single "python >>> setup.py install" to insta

Re: [matplotlib-devel] mkpg on OSX

2009-08-03 Thread Robert Kern
one shouldn't touch /System/Library/.../site-packages/). If you use the System Python to install your package or run bdist_mpkg, it has configured its distutils to default to installing there. If you use the www.python.org build of Python, its default is still its internal /Library/Frameworks

Re: [matplotlib-devel] [Matplotlib-users] strange error when attempting to generate a map using 'geos' projection

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Kern
ROJ.4 library. You may direct feature requests for the PROJ.4 library here: http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlyin

Re: [matplotlib-devel] NumPy version check

2010-02-18 Thread Robert Kern
has been fixed in SVN. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Contouring unstructured triangular grids

2010-03-15 Thread Robert Kern
rry, I didn't follow the thread that closely.) He's using matplotlib.delaunay. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umb

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Qt SVG clipping bug (it's NOT a matplotlib bug)- Qt won't fix...

2010-10-14 Thread Robert Kern
d > to keep an original copy of the SVG data and then create a clipped version of > the SVG data to post into the QT widget? Do you currently support panning and zooming just given the SVG file? That's quite a trick. ipythonqt certainly doesn't attempt that. -- Robert Kern "I

Re: [matplotlib-devel] numerix.nan?

2006-08-06 Thread Robert Kern
nternally instead of nans. (The definition I used is "nan = > float('nan')".) That will certainly not work on Windows. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to int

Re: [matplotlib-devel] building with python-2.3

2007-02-23 Thread Robert Kern
AICT). Here is a Cookbook recipe that ought to work: http://wiki.python.org/moin/DistutilsInstallDataScattered IPython does something similar and possibly better. http://ipython.scipy.org/svn/ipython/ipython/trunk/setupext/install_data_ext.py -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe t

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

2007-04-05 Thread Robert Kern
ct 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. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our ow

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

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-16 Thread Robert Kern
2335, 13.4 kB (checked in by rkern, 4 weeks ago) >> Array trait updated to use numpy idioms only. > > Anything that gets Robert making commits to our tree is a massive win for us. Flattery will get you nowhere. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-17 Thread Robert Kern
import statements won't help with that. There are simply too many ways to get around it. See Brett Cannon's paper on securing Python: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/%7Edrifty/papers/python_security.pdf -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless

Re: [matplotlib-devel] [Enthought-dev] Good feedback on traits

2007-07-17 Thread Robert Kern
3 to use numpy idioms (dtypes instead of typecodes, mostly). Traits 2 happily uses numpy for the Array trait, but you're stuck using icky typecodes that you need to import from numpy.oldnumeric. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harm

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-20 Thread Robert Kern
preserve order, indentation, comments(!), and blank lines. http://code.google.com/p/iniparse/ The drawback is that it doesn't support nested sections, to my knowledge. There might also be more special features of configobj that Fernando uses; I haven't taken a very close look at the code, yet.

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Polygon examples broken

2007-07-20 Thread Robert Kern
like this are in numpy.lib.scimath. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Polygon examples broken

2007-07-20 Thread Robert Kern
mples because it's the only way to make examples clear and to the point. It's not a recommendation. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcParams and validation

2007-07-20 Thread Robert Kern
Fernando Perez wrote: > Am I missing something? No, I just wasn't paying close enough attention. Never mind me. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as thou

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Agg license for 2.5: OK now?

2007-09-25 Thread Robert Kern
nfused, here (and it's not me :-)). Also unfortunately, this has no bearing on matplotlib. matplotlib still can't use Agg 2.5 under an MIT/X11-style license. Asking Maxim for a special license won't help because that license can't be MIT/X11 or anything near as free as matplotlib&

Re: [matplotlib-devel] OS X Leopard install, snag

2007-11-03 Thread Robert Kern
7;t recommend it anymore. I use the binary from http://r.research.att.com/tools/. It is universal. That should help. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rgb versus cmyk

2007-11-21 Thread Robert Kern
to integrating that soft-proofing with matplotlib such that every interactive plot can be displayed as if it were printed (or seen through my colorblind eyes). -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma,

Re: [matplotlib-devel] namespace packages in toolkits?

2007-12-13 Thread Robert Kern
is!" bromide. If you don't want to bother to learn to use namespace packages correctly, that's perfectly fine; just don't use them. But certainly don't blame the tools for your mistake. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless eni

Re: [matplotlib-devel] namespace packages in toolkits?

2007-12-17 Thread Robert Kern
Darren Dale wrote: > On Thursday 13 December 2007 2:22:13 pm Robert Kern wrote: >> John Hunter wrote: >>> Do we need namespace packages in toolkits? I recently added gtktools >>> and exceltools to toolkits, and got a very hard to debug error: >>> >>

Re: [matplotlib-devel] future of mpl documentation

2008-05-22 Thread Robert Kern
ts brought up, MathML is what everyone thinks of. I guess someone has to write the docutils code for it, though. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad att

Re: [matplotlib-devel] The new logo (was: future of mpl documentation)

2008-06-03 Thread Robert Kern
her way around would be terrible: choosing > meaning over looks you are stuck with an ugly logo that > carries the right message. So to me, looks it is, I'm just happy the red-on-green is gone. My colorblind eyes thank whoever changed this. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Any short plan for a new release (0.98.2 for real or 0.98.3)?

2008-07-18 Thread Robert Kern
weepline algorithm is not formulated to be able to use these predicates, so a different algorithm has to be implemented rather than simply incorporating the predicates into the current code. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Any short plan for a new release (0.98.2 for real or 0.98.3)?

2008-07-19 Thread Robert Kern
y I wrote scikits.delaunay in the first place. That, and the nngridr code's an uncommented mass of nested ifs. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Any short plan for a new release (0.98.2 for real or 0.98.3)?

2008-07-21 Thread Robert Kern
age of them! Might it be worth a note to > Shewchuk asking him if we can put it in MPL? -- though it doesn't look > promising. Because he (or his institution's technology transfer department) wants to forbid commercial use without paying them money. He doesn't want Triangle to be

Re: [matplotlib-devel] color mix

2008-09-24 Thread Robert Kern
with perceptual colorspaces is that they do not map neatly to the color gamut of the RGB or CMYK colorspaces of typical rendering devices. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret