Re: [matplotlib-devel] new release?

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

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.
> 

Getting out a 0.98 beta soon would help in getting it more widely 
tested, but it would be nice if that first beta passed the basic checks 
of working for all backend_driver tests on all the standard backends. 
As of the last time I looked, this was not the case.

Eric