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

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

On 03/07/2012 01:39 PM, John Hunter wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st... 
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>     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.
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> 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
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Yeah.  I think that's a good way out of this.  I'll file a bug and 
self-assign.

Mike