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

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

On 06/07/2012 05:44 PM, Eric Firing wrote:
> On 06/07/2012 09:04 AM, John Hunter wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Eric Firing<ef...@ha...>   wrote:
>>
>>> I did not see any replies to Sandro's reasonable question.
>>>
>>> Wasn't there at least a plan for a 1.1.x release soon?
>>>
>>> There are quite a few open pull requests for master--not many for
>>> 1.1.x--but I don't know that any are blockers.
>> There are no open issues tagged "release_candidate" so I'll go ahead
>> and make the 1.1.x release if there are no objections.
>>
>> JDH
> Point of information: running matplotlib/tests.py on linux with 1.1.x, I
> get 1 image comparison failure:
> failed-diff-mathfont_stix_14.png
>
> It is all a matter of subtle differences in horizontal placement, and to
> my eye, the spacing looks better with what I am getting than with the
> expected image.
>
> Is anyone else getting this failure?  If so, maybe updating the expected
> image would take care of it.  Otherwise, maybe the tolerance needs to be
> increased.
I'm not getting this error.  Perhaps the tolerance should be increased 
or the acceptable range of freetype versions needs to be reduced.

Mike