Re: [matplotlib-devel] building with python-2.3

2007-03-03 Thread Darren Dale
On Saturday 03 March 2007 12:43:53 pm you wrote: > On 2/23/07, Andrew Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2) make our own distutils monkeypatch a la setuptools. Looking at > > setuptools/dist.py, this doesn't look trivial -- certainly beyond my > > free bandwidth capacity. > > This is fine by me -

Re: [matplotlib-devel] building with python-2.3

2007-03-03 Thread John Hunter
On 2/23/07, Andrew Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2) make our own distutils monkeypatch a la setuptools. Looking at > setuptools/dist.py, this doesn't look trivial -- certainly beyond my > free bandwidth capacity. This is fine by me -- I actually was forced to think about this this morning as

Re: [matplotlib-devel] barh vs. bar(orientation='horizontal')

2007-03-03 Thread John Hunter
On 3/3/07, Jouni K. Seppänen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Done. Should the function signature in the docstring of barh be > changed as well? I think listing the possible keyword arguments and > their defaults is valuable in the help text, but the signature could > make people think they can use po

Re: [matplotlib-devel] barh vs. bar(orientation='horizontal')

2007-03-03 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
"John Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I replaced most of the kwargs by a **kwargs dict in svn revision 3037. > > Since this changes the API, albeit minimally, make sure these changes > are documented in the API_CHANGES file. Thanks for working on this. Done. Should the function signature

Re: [matplotlib-devel] barh vs. bar(orientation='horizontal')

2007-03-03 Thread John Hunter
On 3/3/07, Jouni K. Seppänen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I replaced most of the kwargs by a **kwargs dict in svn revision 3037. > This does change the behavior for people who were giving positional > arguments to barh, but they do get an error message. Since this changes the API, albeit minimall