Re: [Matplotlib-users] Has nxutils been removed from mpl?

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:

> I agree that the deprecation process should have been followed better.
> However, I'm not sure what you mean by them being faster than their Pyhton
> counterparts.  Both functions in nxutils are replaced by functions in
> _path.cpp, which are also written in C++ but are more complete and don't
> have broken corner cases.  They may be slightly slower  because they have a
> few more checks and handle Bezier curves, but they are not significantly
> slower.
>


What about providing a python module nxutils in master (1.2) that has the
same signature as the old nxutils extension code, calls the path
functionality, and raises a deprecation warning with suggested a suggested
code migration?  And then remove it for 1.3

JDH