Re: [Matplotlib-users] ANN: matplotlib-0.63.0

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "John" == John Hunter <jdh...@ac...> writes:


    John> setup.py now automatically detects Numeric, numarray or
    John> both, and compiles in the appropriate extension code.  Thus
    John> you can use matplotlib with either or both packages and
    John> still get the optimal performance.  So it is no longer
    John> necessary to set NUMERIX in setup.py, but it is necessary to
    John> have the extensions you want compiled available at the time
    John> you compile matplotlib.  The win32 build is for numarray
    John> 1.1.

Todd pointed out to me that the last statement is ambiguous.  The
windows installer is for Numeric *and* numarray-1.1.  Numeric doesn't
have a version number because all recent versions of Numeric are
binary compatible with one another.  numarray gets a version number
because numarray 1.1 is not binary compatible with 1.0 which is not
compatible with 0.9.  The numarray guys are hopeful that they have
achieved binary compatibility for future releases with 1.1 , and the
goal is to have a single matplotlib win32 installer that works with
all current Numeric and numarray, rather than what we used to do which
was a different installer for Numeric and each version of numarray.

JDH