Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-07 Thread Eric Firing
John Hunter wrote: [...] > Michael, how onerous was it for you to do the merges using svn -- this > seems to be the most significant problem with svn in my reading of > David's summary. Here is a new thread related to merging, and the difference between svn and a DVCS: http://www.mail-archive.c

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-07 Thread Eric Firing
Andrew Straw wrote: > Something I haven't seen addressed on the numpy list (or here) is using > hg or bzr to mirror an svn repository. What would be the added advantage > to the project of using a DVCS if all the DVCS-ophiles would simply sync > the svn tree? There has been numpy discussion of

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-07 Thread Andrew Straw
Something I haven't seen addressed on the numpy list (or here) is using hg or bzr to mirror an svn repository. What would be the added advantage to the project of using a DVCS if all the DVCS-ophiles would simply sync the svn tree? Eric Firing wrote: > John Hunter wrote: >> On Jan 7, 2008 2:37

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-07 Thread Eric Firing
John Hunter wrote: > On Jan 7, 2008 2:37 PM, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> All this brings to mind the discussion taking place over the last week >> on the numpy list regarding switching from svn to bzr or hg. >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.numeric.general/18130 >>

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-07 Thread John Hunter
On Jan 7, 2008 2:37 PM, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (At the moment I can't compile the branch--I just sent Mike a message > about that off the list, with voluminous output.) > > It seems like what is needed is not exactly a merge operation but simply > a renaming of the trunk and the

Re: [matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-07 Thread Eric Firing
John et al., (At the moment I can't compile the branch--I just sent Mike a message about that off the list, with voluminous output.) It seems like what is needed is not exactly a merge operation but simply a renaming of the trunk and the branch. Maybe some doc files need to be merged, but tha

[matplotlib-devel] moving to the transforms branch

2008-01-07 Thread John Hunter
Now that the 0.91.2 release is out, I am inclined to merge Michael's transforms branch into the trunk. Since many people rely on svn, we probably need to advertise this move broadly, with a news item on the web page and announcements on the mailing lists, with instructions on how to checkout the

[matplotlib-devel] ANN: matplotlib 0.91.2

2008-01-07 Thread John Hunter
We have uploaded source and binary releases of matplotlib-0.91.2 to http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80706&package_id=82474&release_id=566411. Thanks to Charlie Moad for doing the release. This is a bugfix release and includes several important fixes listed below. 2008-01-06