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

[Christoph G. <cg...@uc...>]

On 6/7/2012 1:34 PM, Christoph Gohlke wrote:
>
>
> On 6/7/2012 1:01 PM, John Hunter wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Christoph Gohlke <cg...@uc...> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there time for another release candidate?
>>>
>>> With the latest github branch on win-amd64-py2.7 I get both, a segfault
>>> and a test failure in "matplotlib.tests.test_text.test_font_styles.test".
>>
>> If you are getting a segfault, is there on the latest branch, would it
>> make sense to do an RC?  It seems like we would want to fix the
>> segfault first.  Can you give us more details on the segfault, eg
>> backend, conditions to reproduce, etc?
>>
>>
>
> There have been many changes since the last rc. The crash is probably
> related to very recent changes. Ideally the segfault should be fixed
> before rc2.
>
>
> The crash on win-amd64-py2.7 is with the PDF backend:
>
> Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 10 2012, 23:24:47) [MSC v.1500 64 bit
> (AMD64)] on win32
>>>> import matplotlib as mpl
>>>> mpl.use("agg")
>>>> mpl.test(verbosity=2)
> <snip>
> matplotlib.tests.test_mathtext.mathtext_stixsans_65_test.test ... ok
> matplotlib.tests.test_mathtext.mathtext_stixsans_65_test.test ... ok
> matplotlib.tests.test_mathtext.mathtext_stixsans_65_test.test ...
> KNOWNFAIL: Cannot compare svg files on this system
> matplotlib.tests.test_mathtext.test_fontinfo ... ok
> matplotlib.tests.test_text.test_antialiasing.test ... ok
> matplotlib.tests.test_text.test_font_styles.test ... ok
> matplotlib.tests.test_text.test_font_styles.test ...
> crash
>
>
> On win32-py2.7 the test fails but doesn't crash. The failure is that
> bold font styles are not rendered bold:
>
> Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 10 2012, 23:31:26) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
> (Intel)] on win32
> <snip>
> ======================================================================
> FAIL: matplotlib.tests.test_text.test_font_styles.test
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "X:\Python27\lib\site-packages\nose\case.py", line 197, in runTest
>       self.test(*self.arg)
>     File
> "X:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\testing\decorators.py", line
> 36, in failer
>       result = f(*args, **kwargs)
>     File
> "X:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\testing\decorators.py", line
> 140, in do_test
>       '(RMS %(rms).3f)'%err)
> ImageComparisonFailure: images not close:
> test\result_images\test_text\font_styles.png vs.
>    test\result_images\test_text\expected-font_styles.png (RMS 47.138)
>
> ======================================================================
> FAIL: matplotlib.tests.test_text.test_font_styles.test
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "X:\Python27\lib\site-packages\nose\case.py", line 197, in runTest
>       self.test(*self.arg)
>     File
> "X:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\testing\decorators.py", line
> 36, in failer
>       result = f(*args, **kwargs)
>     File
> "X:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\testing\decorators.py", line
> 140, in do_test
>       '(RMS %(rms).3f)'%err)
> ImageComparisonFailure: images not close:
> test\result_images\test_text\font_styles_pdf.png vs.
>    test\result_images\test_text\expected-font_styles_pdf.png (RMS 23.409)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ran 1068 tests in 231.978s
>
> FAILED (KNOWNFAIL=268, failures=2)
>
>
> I'll file a ticket if I can't fix it using a debug build.
>

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/933

Christoph