On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Charlie Moad <cwm...@gmail.com> wrote: > First of all let me apologize for the problems we have been > ...snip... > seeing with the binaries as of late. Frankly the root of the problem > seeing osx fat binaries with 4 architectures! I am more than happy to > continue to contribute my time to create these builds, but I think it > only makes sense to have a release candidate cycle before formally > pushing to sourceforge.
I think this is a good suggestion which we will adopt going forward. I rushed the process because I was interested in getting a release out before my talk last week since I wanted to show off some of the new stuff, and thought we had done this enough times that it would go smoothly under an expedited schedule, but clearly it did not. So going forward we will make the release branch first, post release candidates with binaries, announce testing of them, give them at least a week to shake out the bugs, fix the changes on the branch and merge into trunk, and then build the final release from the branch. I have updated the release_guide instructions in the developer's guide http://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/matplotlib/trunk/matplotlib/doc/devel/release_guide.rst?view=markup What are the architectures you are referring to when you write "osx fat binaries with 4 architectures". I am not sure what they are, but I doubt we will choose to support all of them :-) I do think having platform specific make scripts which do everything necessary to checkout and build the dependencies and releases is the right way to go. As you probably saw from my post yesterday, I wrote one of these for OSX yesterday and put it in release/osx, so we should update and use that going forward -- we can refine this even further to incorporate some testing, etc, but it is a good start. If you have time to work on an analog for win32, that would be great, otherwise I may hold my nose and give it a try. Sorry for the extra workload and stress created by this fumble of a release.... JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
