Re: [matplotlib-devel] nxutils

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

Perhaps another alternative is to just include a small compatibility 
module that would call the new functionality under the hood.

Mike

On 11/18/2011 09:07 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote:
> 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 Most of what was in nxutils has been superseded by things in 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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