Re: [matplotlib-devel] Plans for matplotlib py3k/final release (and impact on Debian)

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

On 05/14/2012 12:58 PM, Christoph Gohlke wrote:
>
> On 5/14/2012 7:43 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote:
>> On 05/12/2012 01:33 PM, Christoph Gohlke wrote:
>>>
>>> On 5/12/2012 6:16 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote:
>>>> On 05/12/2012 07:21 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>>>>> My original offer (made several months ago) to help test this on
>>>>> Windows
>>>>> still stands :)
>>>>>
>>>> Thanks. Does git master build and pass the unit tests on Windows?
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>> git master builds and tests OK on win32-py2.7.
>>>
>>> With the attached patch git master builds and works (in practice) OK
>>> on win-amd64-py3.2 but there are many test errors of type
>>> "RuntimeError: Could not open facefile X:\Python32\...\ttf\Vera.ttf;
>>> Cannot_Open_Resource". I do delete the ~\.matplotlib folder before
>>> running the tests and can verify that
>>> FT2Font(r"X:\Python32\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\mpl-data\fonts\ttf\Vera.ttf")
>>> works.
>> That looks like the same issue we were having on the 1.1.x branch --
>> that it's running out of file handles -- that I thought was fixed by
>> this PR:
>>
>> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/798
>>
>>
>> PR798 works for Python 2.7. But under Python 3.2 the tests are still
>> running out of file handles. Manually increasing the open files limit
>> helps (only one test fails).
>>
Ah, I guess that makes sense given how destructors are handled 
differently on Python 3.  I have some thoughts on this that I might put 
into a PR.  I don't have access to a Windows box at the moment, so I may 
need some help testing.

Mike