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 seeing lots of warnings like the ones below when running the tests
on a linux platform (opensuse, python2.7 64bit).  Should we attempt to
silence these, or is there some cross python version call we could be
using instead?


/home/titan/johnh/devlinux/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/textpath.py:246:
PendingDeprecationWarning: The CObject type is marked Pending
Deprecation in Python 2.7.  Please use capsule objects instead.
  font.clear()
/home/titan/johnh/devlinux/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/textpath.py:247:
PendingDeprecationWarning: The CObject type is marked Pending
Deprecation in Python 2.7.  Please use capsule objects instead.
  font.set_size(self.FONT_SCALE, self.DPI)