Re: [matplotlib-devel] v1.1.1rc2 tarballs are up

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

On 06/09/2012 12:21 PM, John Hunter wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Eric Firing<ef...@ha...>  wrote:
>> On 06/09/2012 11:14 AM, John Hunter wrote:
>>> I just uploaded the v1.1.1rc2 tarballs to the sourceforge site
>>
>> John,
>>
>> Is it intentional that the tarballs include doc/build?
>
> It isn't intentional and it looks like it only affected the "notests"
> dist.  Fixed it -- thanks for catching it.

It also has backend_gdk.c (supposed to be a temporary copy of 
_backend_gdk.c) and some others like it.

Which raises the question: why are these temporary copies needed at all? 
I don't see any explanation in setupext.py.  I imagine it has to do with 
how some systems handle the leading underscore on the name, but it would 
be nice to have it explained in a comment in setupext.py.

Eric