Re: [matplotlib-devel] propose 1.1.0 release tomorrow

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:55 PM, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
>
> > What happens if someone tries to test without having the baseline images?
>  I
> > guess it hasn't been an issue before.
>
> Tests will fail.  But the tests are already pretty dependent on things
> like freetype version so it might be more trouble than it is worth to
> try and support them in a generic user environment.
>

That's valid.  I guess I am just wondering if there is a decent error
message to the user explaining that the test could not proceed.


>
> >>> Do you need eggs (not tested; without pytz and dateutil)?
> >>
> >> I'm OK w/ not shipping eggs.  Someone will probably ask for them,
> though.
> >
> > Have we shipped eggs before?
>
> Yep,
>
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.0.1
>
> But they have been the source of much pain and annoyance, especially on
> OSX.
>

True.  Perhaps having fewer installation options available at the download
page would be better/clearer.  Maybe leave egg distribution to pip and
easy_install?

Ben Root