Re: [matplotlib-devel] Problem checking if masked arrays are finite in transforms.py

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

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