Re: [Matplotlib-users] Undocumented transform API change between 1.1 and 1.2?

[Darren D. <dsd...@gm...>]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Phil Elson <pel...@gm...> wrote:
> Thanks for bringing this up, it is certainly valuable to highlight this on
> the mailinglist. As you say, the change is hard to spot and, I agree, makes
> library code supporting v1.1.1 and v1.2 harder than one would like.
> Typically, anything which is going to break core APIs (even slightly) should
> be documented under the "API Changes" page here
> http://matplotlib.org/api/api_changes.html#changes-in-1-2-x

I suggest that an API change should have triggered a major version
bump to mpl-2.0.0. It seems a well-established expectation for a
major.minor.bugfix versioning scheme that bugfix releases will not
introduce new features, and minor releases will not introduce API
changes.

Darren