Re: [matplotlib-devel] Requiring numpy requirement to 1.5 on master?

[Damon M. <dam...@gm...>]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:
> On 2013/01/11 5:38 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote:
>> As pointed out in #1650, we have a bug on Python 3.x handling file-like
>> objects that are UNIX FILEs, but not actual filesystem files, such as
>> the sockets used for a urllib HTTP request.
>>
>> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/1650
>>
>> As Christoph helpfully points out, Numpy has already solved this problem
>> (since 1.5.0), so it would be easiest to just use their solution.
>>
>> For 1.2.x, I think we shouldn't update the Numpy requirement (which is
>> currently 1.4) -- there, I'll have to port Numpy's compatibility
>> functions to our code base.  But for master, I'd rather just use Numpy's
>> stuff so all of the intricacies of this are handled in one place.
>>
>> (And as a detail, it isn't until Numpy 1.7 that a "CloseFile" function
>> is provided, so even on master, we're stuck copying some code over).
>>
>> Any objections?

Nope.

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