From: Eric F. <ef...@ha...> - 2008-04-24 19:21:55
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John Hunter wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote: >> Darren, >> >> In an earlier thread on matplotlib-users, when this first came up, John >> noted that numpy svn should be required for present mpl svn, so >> instead of fixing the attempted workaround for 1.04 I took it out and >> instead put a numpy version check in matplotlib.__init__. > > Just to make clear my thinking on this: since the svn trunk of mpl is > a major refactoring and will be a major point jump when we release it > (0.98), this is a good time to get onto numpy 1.1 (ie numpy svn) so we > can rely on all the nice features and fixes that have gone into that > release. > > JDH I agree completely! On a related note, what about python >= 2.4 instead of 2.3? This is not something I have a strong opinion about, but I think it might also be a reasonable time to let 2.4 be the minimum requirement. Eric |