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

[Gael V. <gae...@no...>]

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()".

> > 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 (:->).

Gaël