Re: [matplotlib-devel] nxutils

[Michael D. <md...@st...>]

nxutils has been removed from master because it is completely redundant 
to the Path functionality that has been in matplotlib since 0.98.  In 
the process of porting to Python 3, I felt it was important to reduce 
code duplication, because every additional line requires additional testing.

That said, there seems to be a lot of push back on this.  We can 
reinstate it, but I would suggest raising DeprecationWarnings for one 
release and then removing it entirely in the next.

Mike

On 11/18/2011 12:21 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
> Huh? Nxutils removed? Then how am I still using points_inside_poly? 
> And, if I remember right, Path uses that to calculate contains().
>
> Ben Root
>
> On Thursday, November 17, 2011, Eric Firing <ef...@ha... 
> <mailto:ef...@ha...>> wrote:
> > On 11/17/2011 10:19 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote:
> >> Most of what was in nxutils has been superseded by things in Numpy, and
> >> it makes more sense for it to be over there.
> >>
> >> In the case of points_inside_poly, you can use the Path object in
> >> path.py and the "contains_point" method.
> >>
> >> Mike
> >
> > Mike,
> >
> > This, however, brings us back to the plea by Volker Blum:
> >
> > 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/mat...@li.../msg22669.html
> >
> > There is a real tension between the need to clean things up and simplify
> > them, and users' desire for minimal loss of backwards compatibility.
> > Personally, my instincts are in the "clean it up" camp, but a good
> > balance has to be found.
> >
> > nxutils was definitely a vestige of an earlier era; but I don't think it
> > went through any official, publicized, deprecation process, did it?
> > Maybe it didn't need to; I don't know.  Perhaps we need to formulate and
> > write down a deprecation policy.
> >
> > Eric
> >
> >>
> >> On 11/17/2011 12:03 PM, James Evans wrote:
> >>>
> >>> All,
> >>>
> >>> I have not touched the code for several months, so it has taken me up
> >>> until just now to realize that nxutils has been removed from the 
> build.
> >>>
> >>> I there any real reason for this? Particularly when you consider that
> >>> there are still functions present that use it and now they just fail.
> >>>
> >>> In particular I am referring to 'mlab.inside_poly'. In my case I was
> >>> using 'nxutils.points_inside_poly' directly, but the end result is the
> >>> same.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> --James Evans
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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