Re: [matplotlib-devel] Insight on dealing with configuration

[Fernando P. <fpe...@gm...>]

On Dec 11, 2007 5:42 PM, Gael Varoquaux <gae...@no...> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 05:37:41PM -0700, Fernando Perez wrote:
> > The tconfig objects already have a very dict-like representation for
> > dumping into a text file, the .ini format. Or do you mean something
> > that's even closer to a dict, curly braces and all?
>
> No, I don't care about the curly brace. However, I don't want the
> comments. I haven't decided yet, but I am sure that I want something that
> a bit more compact than, eg "print MPLConfig()".

I see, makes sense.  Hack away, I trust your judgment :)

> > > The problem is that it would break your script, so I can't send you a
> > > patch. I'd like the codebase to stay similar, so maybe we can discuss
> > > this once I have some code.
>
> > Yup, it would be good not to have mpl-tconfig, ipython-tconfig and
> > mayavi-tconfig :)
>
> Yes, lets try to keep this united. I'll probably also work on a nice
> TraitsUI view. If all three projects can use the same model, view and
> controler for the configuration file, that will make it easier to, one
> day, present a unified configuration editor for a scientific IDE (:->).

Indeed.  Once we have the code in place, we'll worry about organizing
things for easy reuse.

Cheers,

f