Re: [matplotlib-devel] Fwd: python data vis Slack channels?

2015-05-04 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 4 May 2015 at 09:45, Thomas Caswell tcasw...@gmail.com wrote: IPython and scikit image both have gitter rooms running that seem to working well for them as well, is there any reason to go with slack over gitter? Gitter rooms are closely tied to Github repositories or organisations, so if

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Capitalization of Matplotlib

2015-02-16 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 16 February 2015 at 10:53, Nelle Varoquaux nelle.varoqu...@gmail.com wrote: 2. you are used to having sentences start with capital letter, but this is mostly cultural. German People capitalize almost all Words in a Sentence. It just looks weird too… FWIW, I tried naming a few small

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Please consider Html Help

2014-07-28 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 28 July 2014 11:27, Benjamin Root ben.r...@ou.edu wrote: Going to the sourceforge page you have, I see that you mean HTML Help as in .chm files. That is something different that I am not familiar with. All of our documentation is generated from sphinx, so whatever sphinx supports, we can

[matplotlib-devel] Fwd: v1.4 feature freeze + release timeline

2014-05-16 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 16 May 2014 01:17, Eric Firing efir...@hawaii.edu wrote: Maybe this problem could be reduced by having a directory for CHANGELOG chunks, one file per PR, with the PR number as the filename. Then at release time they could be concatenated, edited, appended to the real CHANGELOG, and

Re: [matplotlib-devel] unicodeescape traceback on build of latest master in IPython

2013-12-06 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 6 December 2013 04:55, Joel B. Mohler jmoh...@gamry.com wrote: C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py in Verbose() -- 252 for arg in map(six.u, sys.argv[1:]): C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\six.pyc in u(s) -- 468 return unicode(s, unicode_escape)

Re: [matplotlib-devel] unicodeescape traceback on build of latest master in IPython

2013-12-06 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 6 December 2013 10:37, Joel B. Mohler jmoh...@gamry.com wrote: It seems to me that this changeset needs to be rolled back, but I don't clearly see the problem that it was intended to fix. I assume that someone wanted to work with the arguments as text (i.e. unicode) strings. A robust way

Re: [matplotlib-devel] basemap installation problem with mpl master

2013-07-06 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 6 July 2013 18:20, Damon McDougall damon.mcdoug...@gmail.com wrote: Long story. The short story is that distutils was merged into setuptools. So setuptools is now the recommended way to install python packages. *distribute*, which was a fork of setuptools, was merged into setuptools.

Re: [matplotlib-devel] NavigationToolbar2TkAgg changes in v1.2.0 win32 py2.6?

2013-07-04 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 4 July 2013 13:27, Brasier, Steve steve.bras...@atkinsglobal.com wrote: When I look in the svn browser herehttp://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/matplotlib/trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_tkagg.py?annotate=8989(which I assume is the current code?) With no updates

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Reviving the matplotlib survey

2013-07-01 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 1 July 2013 16:09, Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.edu wrote: Everyone else: Are there any other changes you think we should make before we put this out? We also started preparing a second user survey for IPython, but we haven't yet launched it. I think our questions are broadly similar to

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Weird KnownFailure problem in IPython test suite with mpl master

2013-06-18 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 19 June 2013 00:09, Fernando Perez fperez@gmail.com wrote: I wish we could just fix this plugin issue. When we drop support for Python 2.6, I think we can use the expectedFailure mechanism included in unittest from 2.7 onwards. So long as nose recognises that, we should be able to drop

Re: [matplotlib-devel] RFC: Moving plots out of axes

2013-03-15 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 15 March 2013 17:18, Nathaniel Smith n...@pobox.com wrote: On 15 Mar 2013 16:50, Todd toddr...@gmail.com wrote: Within the axes constructor, the constructor would run through each of these modules and store them as attributes with the same name as the function and the function itself

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Docs build hitting an ImportError - any guesses?

2013-03-04 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 2 March 2013 23:19, Thomas Kluyver tho...@kluyver.me.uk wrote: Not directly - it runs on a completely automated build server. I've just pushed a commit to the packaging rules which will try this the next time it does the build. But it's not exactly instant feedback for debugging

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Matplotlib PPA

2013-01-28 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 28 January 2013 15:57, Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.edu wrote: Thanks. Sorry about not communicating the new dependency very well. As this only affects those building the docs (meaning primarily developers and not end-users) it wasn't given the same care. That's fine. I think I did

[matplotlib-devel] Matplotlib PPA

2013-01-26 Thread Thomas Kluyver
As a couple of people have noticed, my matplotlib-daily PPA has become broken the other day, especially for 64-bit users. The root cause of this is that building the docs now requires numpydoc, which is only packaged in the development release of Ubuntu. I've taken this as a prompt to switch the

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Usefulness of Travis-CI

2013-01-16 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 16 January 2013 08:35, Nathaniel Smith n...@pobox.com wrote: When this has come up on the numfocus list before the status was, sure, they can provide resources/funding if you can find someone to do the actual work :-). If anyone is interested in putting in the time to solve this problem

Re: [matplotlib-devel] autoconf+python

2013-01-07 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 7 January 2013 16:57, Benjamin Root ben.r...@ou.edu wrote: I was just reading some comments from Richard Stallman on ./ when I noticed that he pointed out a useful autoconf feature that was added somewhat recently. Essentially, this feature would allow one to do a build/install of a

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Problem in backporting Matplotlib for Py3 on Kubuntu Precise

2012-12-29 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 29 December 2012 13:53, Shriramana Sharma samj...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. I don't use Matplotlib directly (yet) but I wish to use https://github.com/scios/IPyXt which needs it, and I'm using IPython and SymPy both with Python 3. (Current version on my Kubuntu Precise system is 3.2.3.) So

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Github Downloads going away...

2012-12-15 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 15 December 2012 23:38, Damon McDougall damon.mcdoug...@gmail.comwrote: Maybe the best thing is to host the binaries on Sourceforge. Having recently tried to do it, Sourceforge tries really hard to avoid giving you a direct link that can repeatably be used to download a file automatically,

Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP12: Reorganize example gallery and clean up examples

2012-12-11 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 11 December 2012 23:07, Tony Yu tsy...@gmail.com wrote: You suggest keeping the old examples around in some dark corner. Is there some advantage you envision for doing this? I'd just as soon remove them. Note that the documentation on the website is now versioned, so the examples that

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Experiments in removing/replacing PyCXX

2012-12-01 Thread Thomas Kluyver
Drat, re-sending on the list. On 1 December 2012 16:40, Thomas Kluyver tho...@kluyver.me.uk wrote: On 1 December 2012 14:44, Michiel de Hoon mjldeh...@yahoo.com wrote: At the same time, to minimize errors, we could use Cython to create the initial Python/C glue code, and then add

Re: [matplotlib-devel] master vs maintenance branches (current process and proposal for future workflow)

2012-11-12 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 12 November 2012 20:52, Benjamin Root ben.r...@ou.edu wrote: There are other git workflows, which are all perfectly valid. If you can convince us to use another, feel free to propose one. However, we have done a couple of releases with gitwash, and it has worked quite well for us given

[matplotlib-devel] Trove classifiers

2012-10-23 Thread Thomas Kluyver
I've just noticed that matplotlib on PyPI doesn't have any trove classifiers. I think it would be good to add these for the 1.2 release - apart from anything else, it will indicate to the various automated tools checking Python 3 compatibility that matplotlib is now compatible. Here are the

Re: [matplotlib-devel] strategy for 1.2.x, master, PEP8 changes

2012-10-14 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 14 October 2012 21:22, Eric Firing efir...@hawaii.edu wrote: 3) The potential disagreement is over whether the PEP8 changes should be cherry-picked into v1.2.x, or simply left in master. I favor the latter course. I'm not familiar with matplotlib's merge strategy, but I'd agree with you

Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP11: Attempting to deal with the Python library dependency issue

2012-10-04 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 3 October 2012 22:08, Christoph Gohlke cgoh...@uci.edu wrote: Concerning end user experience, the scipy-stack project seems like a better place to address this. To expand on this, there's a discussion underway on the scipy-user and numfocus mailing lists about standardising a set of packages

Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.2.0rc1 is cut

2012-09-12 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 12 September 2012 15:44, Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.edu wrote: For those creating distro packages, now is a good time to let us know what can be done to make the inclusion of matplotlib 1.2.0 as smooth as possible. I think I've mentioned before, but whoever does the Debian packages is

[matplotlib-devel] Fwd: A common name for the scipy stack - pylab?

2012-09-05 Thread Thomas Kluyver
Hi, (Apologies if you get this twice - I forgot which address I subscribed to the list with) As some of you may have seen, there's a discussion underway on the scipy-user mailing list about developing a common name for the scipy stack. At present, the discussion is centring on adopting the name

Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP10: Modernizing the documentation

2012-09-04 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 5 September 2012 00:32, Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.edu wrote: I wonder if there's any possibility of using that on earlier versions (I suspect not). Not easily, I think. You'd have to get introspection tools like IPython to separately check for a __signature__ attribute, and I suspect

Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP10: Modernizing the documentation

2012-09-03 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 26 August 2012 18:19, Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.edu wrote: I understand the comments about the difficulty of introspection. The reason it works the way it does is so that additional parameters can be added to the artist layer without needing to update every single plotting function. A

Re: [matplotlib-devel] python 3 fork?

2012-05-30 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 30 May 2012 20:05, Tom Lippman tom.lipp...@gmail.com wrote: I'm on OS X 10.7, using the python 3.2 I saw someone recently who'd managed to get it built for Python 3 on OS X. I suggested he come here to help simplify the process - this is what he did: http://stackoverflow.com/a/10574470/434217

Re: [matplotlib-devel] python 3 fork?

2012-05-30 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 30 May 2012 19:49, Tom Lippman tom.lipp...@gmail.com wrote: I saw that matplotlib had been ported to python 3 (here), and that the matplotlib-py3 branch was merged back into the main branch.  So I assumed matplotlib was compatible with python 3, and went ahead and tried to use it.  It

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Plans for matplotlib py3k/final release (and impact on Debian)

2012-05-12 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 12 May 2012 10:56, Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org wrote: It would be really awesome to have a python3 matplotlib in Debian, and i'd be happy to test any new RC you'd like to release. Just to mention: I've set up a daily builds PPA for matplotlib, and it's been happily producing Python 3 builds

Re: [matplotlib-devel] wxMPL patch

2012-05-01 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 1 May 2012 17:26, Chris Barker chris.bar...@noaa.gov wrote: Would there be a problem bringing it in to MPL in that case? Not from the license point of view - the X11 license is another permissive BSD-style license. I was just furnishing that detail. ;-) Thomas

[matplotlib-devel] Fwd: Docs failing to build

2012-04-24 Thread Thomas Kluyver
Hi, In the last couple of days, the daily builds on Launchpad have been choking on the docs. They get to reading sources... [ 91%] faq/howto_faq, then seemingly lock up until the queue manager aborts the build. It claims there's 2h30 of inactivity before that happens, so it looks like something

[matplotlib-devel] Matplotlib daily builds PPA

2012-04-12 Thread Thomas Kluyver
Apologies if you receive this twice - I joined the mailing list with one address, then posted from another. Mods, feel free to bin the other copy of the post. If you want to get more people testing the next version, I've set up a PPA to build the development version of matplotlib nightly for