Re: [matplotlib-devel] propose 1.1.0 release tomorrow

[Christoph G. <cg...@uc...>]

On 10/6/2011 7:57 AM, John Hunter wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Michael Droettboom<md...@st...>  wrote:
>> On 10/06/2011 10:46 AM, John Hunter wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 9:44 AM, John Hunter<jd...@gm...>    wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Michael Droettboom<md...@st...>
>>>>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Pretty simple.  I have a pull request here:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/509
>>>>
>>>> I confirmed the qt bugs Eric and Michael were working on and tested
>>>> the fixes, so i merged and closed these two.  The only remaining issue
>>>> I am aware of is Sandro's map issue, and he said earlier in this
>>>> thread that he can use the map function rather than the pool, so I
>>>> think we are good to go today.  Speak now if I am missing something!
>>>
>>> OK, and now I see that Michael removed multi-processing entirely in #507
>>
>> Yeah -- it only really saves around 30seconds anyway.  I thought it best to
>> have it work reliably -- we can investigate the cause of Sandro's failure
>> (which I'm not able to reproduce) later -- no need for it to hold up the
>> release.
>
> Great -- they tarballs for the mpl src and sample_data are at
>
> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/archives/master
>
> if Sandro would like to start with the debian packaging.  Russell and
> Christoph, if you could point me to some binary builds I'll upload
> these to the sf site along with the tarballs and do the ANN.
>
> Thanks all,
> JDH
>
>

Is it really intended to include ~36 MB of tests/baseline_images in the 
binary distributions for end users?

Do you need eggs (not tested; without pytz and dateutil)?

Christoph