Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.3.0rc5 tagged

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

On 07/24/2013 11:36 AM, Michiel de Hoon wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> > Thanks.  I will address these issues before final.
>
> Thanks.
>
> >None of this is new -- we've gone through 5 release candidates over 
> many weeks.  Why is this just coming to light now?
>
> The output of running "python setup.py build" passes by quickly, and 
> people (including myself) did not notice that the MacOSX backend was 
> not being compiled.
> And then if an older version of matplotlib is already installed, 
> everything seems to be working fine.
> I noticed this problem today only because I was installing matplotlib 
> on a new Macbook.

Ah, that makes sense.  Hopefully as part of doing some automated Mac 
builds we can be testing clean installs etc. and catch this kind of 
thing sooner in the future.

Mike

>
> Best,
> -Michiel.
>
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> *From:* Michael Droettboom <md...@st...>
> *To:* Michiel de Hoon <mjl...@ya...>
> *Cc:* Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...>; 
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> *Subject:* Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.3.0rc5 tagged
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> Thanks.  I will address these issues before final.
>
> None of this is new -- we've gone through 5 release candidates over 
> many weeks.  Why is this just coming to light now?
>
> Mike
>
> On 07/23/2013 11:16 PM, Michiel de Hoon wrote:
>> I noticed that this release candidate will always skip the Mac OS X 
>> backend,
>> as the .check() method of BackendMacOSX in setupext.py returns None. 
>> Adding
>>     return "darwin"
>> or some other string solves the issue.
>> Also, if I am not mistaken, the files under 
>> lib/matplotlib/backends/Matplotlib.nib (as returned by the 
>> get_package_data() method of BackendMacOSX in setupext.py) are needed 
>> by the cocoaagg backend, not by the MacOSX backend.
>>
>> Best,
>> -Michiel.
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