Re: [matplotlib-devel] mpl release candidate branch

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 8:02 AM, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:
> Today is the "go-live" date for the mpl release candidate. There are
> no more open issues tagged release_critical, so I suggest we branch
> this afternoon.  This will give people a last chance to merge in
> remaining pull requests.  If you know you are planning to handle a
> given pull request before the branch, please drop a comment on the
> pull request or respond here so we don't duplicate effort.  Michael,
> are you available to make the release branch this afternoon?


I'm getting tons of failures like the one below relating to mathtext
fonts on two different platforms (linux and solaris).  Anyone else
seeing these?  I did flush my fonts and tex cache and did a clean
install.


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FAIL: matplotlib.tests.test_mathtext.mathfont_stix_49_test.test
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/nose/case.py", line 183, in runTest
    self.test(*self.arg)
  File "/home/jdhunter/dev/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/testing/decorators.py",
line 35, in failer
    result = f(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/jdhunter/dev/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/testing/decorators.py",
line 126, in do_test
    '(RMS %(rms).3f)'%err)
ImageComparisonFailure: images not close:
/home/jdhunter/tmp/mpl_test/result_images/test_mathtext/mathfont_stix_49.png
vs. /home/jdhunter/tmp/mpl_test/result_images/test_mathtext/expected-mathfont_stix_49.png
(RMS 11.269)