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From: Michael D. <md...@st...> - 2008-12-12 14:04:25
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Darren Dale wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:10 PM, John Hunter <jd...@gm... > <mailto:jd...@gm...>> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Darren Dale <dsd...@gm... > <mailto:dsd...@gm...>> wrote: > > There has been a report at the bugtracker complaining that > matplotlib is overwriting an existing installation of > configobj. I had a look at the code and thought the bug report > must be a mistake or windows specific, but I just saw similar > behavior on my linux system. > > > Ignoring for a minute the question of whether we can/should flush > configobj/traits, it sounds like the real problem is that > setup.cfg is not working like we expect it to. And that is > something that should be fixed if is broken. If mpl is installing > configobj or traits even if we are telling it not to via > setup.cfg, then we have a problem. This is worth knowing, since > the last mpl release was broken vis-a-vis the default backend on > win32, which *could* be explained by a broken setup.cfg. > > > I would like to simply remove configobj and traits from our > repository. They are only used by the long-neglected > experimental traited config package, which is only of interest > to developers who can easily install them as external > dependencies. Is it ok to remove them? If so, should it be > done on all the branches? > > [...] > > > You can remove them from the trunk. They should remain on the > 0.91 branch as is (with any known bugs fixed and merged) since > that is the point of the branch (stability for those who cannot > upgrade -- in principle someone might be depending on the traited > config, in practice unlikely). > > > I just removed them from the trunk, but not the 0.91 or 0.98.5 > branches. I was going to add a note to the API_CHANGES log, was it > removed? API_CHANGES was moved to doc/api/api_changes.rst so it gets automatically put up on the website. Cheers, Mike -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA |