Re: [matplotlib-devel] ANN: matplotlib-0.64

[Fernando P. <Fer...@co...>]

Hi John,

great work, many thanks!

John Hunter schrieb:
>   * cairo backend - Steve Chaplin has contributed cairo and gtkcairo
>     backends - http://cairographics.org.  Cairo is a vector graphics
>     library designed to provide high-quality display and print
>     output. Currently supported output targets include the X Window
>     System, OpenGL, in-memory image buffers, and image files (PNG and
>     PostScript).  See http://matplotlib.sf.net/backends.html#Cairo for
>     details and install instructions

Just curious: can you comment on what's similar/different between cairo and 
agg?  Is there significant duplication or do they target different problems? 
Would it make sense for these two projects to share code?  I worry a bit about 
the explosion of backends, esp. because of the maintainability burden it tends 
to cause in the long term.

>   * ipython integration - Fernando has continued his excellent work
>     integrating matplotlib with ipython and a number of pylab bugs

Thanks :)

>     have been ironed out.  matplotlib has incorporated ipython's
>     numutils in the matplotlib.mlab module - See IPython-0.6.4 - all
>     similarities betwen matplotlib and ipython version numbers are
>     purely coincidental.

No they're not!  They are just one of the few visible signs of our evil master 
plan for world domination :)

Best,

f