Re: [Matplotlib-users] github - basemap and contributing...

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Thomas Lecocq <thl...@ms...> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I've successfully forked matplotlib.basemap to ThomasLecocq.basemap and
> cloned ThomasLecocq.basemap to my machine. Now, how can I have this clone
> be THE mpl_toolkits.basemap package, so I can make edits in the __init__.py
> (that contains the Basemap class) and preview them "live" on this machine.
> Once they are nice and OK, I can commit/push it to my master on github and
> probably create a pull request to the matplotlib.basemap git ?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
>
> Thom
>
>
You would build and install basemap from the git source as you would
normally from a tarball source.  Make modifications to the source, do a
"python setup.py install", test, and repeat as needed.  When happy, commit
those changes to your local branch, push that branch up to your github
account, and then from github make a PR.

The instructions for basemap wouldn't be all that different from
matplotlib, which can be found here:
http://matplotlib.org/devel/gitwash/index.html

Cheers!
Ben Root