Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.2.0rc1 is cut

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

On 9/12/2012 7:44 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote:
> I have tagged and created a tarball for 1.2.0rc1.  The githash is
> bda6dd9feab8.  The tarball is on the github download page here:
>
> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/downloads
>
> I have created a new branch, v1.2.x, for continuing 1.2.x development.
> The feature freeze on master is now lifted and big experimental changes
> can be merged into master.  Any bugfixes that need to go into 1.2.x
> should be merged into both places.  Please mark any PRs for the 1.2.x
> branch with the 1.2.x milestone so we can verify that things are merged
> in both places.
>
> For those creating the Windows and Macintosh builds, let's try using the
> github download page rather than the one at Sourceforge this time.  It
> is a lot simpler.
>
> For those creating distro packages, now is a good time to let us know
> what can be done to make the inclusion of matplotlib 1.2.0 as smooth as
> possible.
>
> Once the binaries are available, I will make an announcement to
> matplotlib-users.
>
> Mike
>
>

Can we hold the Windows binaries until rc2? Setup.py corrupts the pytz 
package, leading to stack-overflows on Python 3 and other problems on 
Python 2.

Christoph