Re: [matplotlib-devel] wxMPL patch

[Chris B. <chr...@no...>]

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Matt Newville
<new...@ca...> wrote:

> Sorry for the delay.... I also haven't done anything about this... yet?   I
> might be more gung-ho to fold this into my wxmplot, which is fairly similar,
> but not exactly 1-to-1,  and has some name overlaps with wxmpl.   To be
> clear, I'm willing to refactor wxmplot to better accommodate  most of  the
> wxmpl interface,

Sounds like a great idea.

> What interfaces are you actually using from wxmpl?  I guess put another way:
> what do we want for a wx interface to matplotlib that's higher level than
> the standard backend.    The PlotPanel and PlotFrames look close enough to
> merge.

Those are what I use -- actually, only the PlotPanel -- I generally
want to customize the Frame.


>   The wxmpl StripCharter seems a little different from what I do with
> wxmplot, but perhaps that and the Channel class are easy enough to emulate.

Those are kind of higher-level stuff that's more suited to wxmplot, I
think -- as I don't use them, I don't care if you break the API -- but
that's just me.

> For how / where to host it, I don't much care.  Github and pypi seem easy
> enough.

I think it would be great to put it in the mpl repo as an mpl_toolkit
-- which means github, yes?


Thanks for taking this on!

-Chris


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