From: Andrew S. <str...@as...> - 2006-12-20 18:19:27
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John Hunter wrote: > That said, I would always be happy to include a (mostly) full featured > backend for a format a large number of users want. Short of that, I > think distributing it through another channel, or making a sandbox in > the mpl distribution, FWIW, Jeff Whitaker 's basemap and my mplsizer (wx-like sizer implementation for mpl) live in the "toolkits" directory of the mpl svubversion tree. I think that partially-implemented backends could also happily live there. It's also feasible to allow runtime discovery of backends through the use of setuptools' plugins (to name one route). I understand completely, however, that there may be a resistance to adding a dependency on setuptools. |