Re: [matplotlib-devel] new release?

[Jeff W. <js...@fa...>]

Michael Droettboom wrote:
> I don't know if 0.98 has seen enough hammering to be a recommended 
> stable release.  (Just today, Matthias Michler pointed out a pretty 
> significant bug with widgets related to the refactoring).  I think a 
> 0.98 release that is clearly labeled as beta would not be a bad thing 
> to get it in the hands of more people who don't track SVN.
>
> I think a 0.91.3 release is probably also in order, since there are 23 
> bugfixes, most notably the wx saving bug.  I think that release is 
> important to push bugfixes out to distributions that already package 
> 0.91.2 (e.g. Ubuntu Hardy).
>
> And as for the egg issue (which I'm completely ignorant of) -- is that 
> something that could be fixed on 0.91.x without too much trouble?  Is 
> it something that once worked and is now broken?
>
> Cheers,
> Mike

Mike:  The egg issue required renaming matplotlib.toolkits to 
mpl_toolkits.  We discussed this at the time, and decided it would cause 
too much code breakage to be included in 0.91.x.

I'm OK with a 0.98 beta, but that's more work for Charlie to make extra 
installers and eggs.

-Jeff
>
> Jeff Whitaker wrote:
>> What do people think of releasing 0.98 after numpy 1.1 is released 
>> this weekend?
>> The main reason I'd like to do this (instead of releasing another 
>> 0.91.x) is that the toolkits are broken in 0.91 - if matplotlib is 
>> installed as an egg basemap (or any other toolkit) cannot be installed.
>>
>> -Jeff
>>
>>   
>


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