Re: [matplotlib-devel] Any short plan for a new release (0.98.2 for real or 0.98.3)?

2008-07-22 Thread John Hunter
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 6:30 AM, Jeff Whitaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris: I've now added a griddata function to matplotlib.mlab that uses Robert Kern's scikit.delaunay code (which is now included in matplotlib as matplotlib.delaunay). The more bulletproof natgrid code, with the dubious

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Any short plan for a new release (0.98.2 for real or 0.98.3)?

2008-07-21 Thread Christopher Barker
Jeff Whitaker wrote: Basically, Fortune's sweepline algorithm for Delaunay triangulation simply needs to be replaced with an algorithm that can be formulated using Jonathan Shewchuck's robust predicates: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake/robust.html great idea. I checked

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Any short plan for a new release (0.98.2 for real or 0.98.3)?

2008-07-21 Thread Christopher Barker
arrg! When am I going to learn not to click send until after I've read the entire thread! Jeff Whitaker wrote: John: I just contacted NCAR again, and it seems that they have relicensed the software under an OSI-based license similar to the University of Illinois/NCSA: ... What do you

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Any short plan for a new release (0.98.2 for real or 0.98.3)?

2008-07-21 Thread Robert Kern
Christopher Barker wrote: Jeff Whitaker wrote: I checked Shewchuk's web page and unfortunately his code comes with this license: ... How I wish people would just pick a known Open Source License -- it's not like there are a shortage of them! Might it be worth a note to Shewchuk

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Any short plan for a new release (0.98.2 for real or 0.98.3)?

2008-07-18 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 07:36:03AM +0200, Gael Varoquaux wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 08:55:59AM -0500, John Hunter wrote: I think we could do a 0.98.3 release. I am right now implementing a wx frontend to ipython, and I can see in the near future a score of people complaining that from

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Any short plan for a new release (0.98.2 for real or 0.98.3)?

2008-07-18 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 09:15:16AM -0500, John Hunter wrote: ipython Shell.py already hacks wx, gtk, and tk to make sure mpl's mainloop is not going to cause any problems (eg IPython.Shell.hijack_wx). Is there something about the new ipython wx frontend design that requires a different

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Any short plan for a new release (0.98.2 for real or 0.98.3)?

2008-07-18 Thread John Hunter
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Gael Varoquaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hum, maybe I am not understanding properly what you mean here. It acts on matplotlib only when it is passed the -pylab argument, AFAIK. Thus if you OK, at least I understand the issue now a bit better, thanks for

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Any short plan for a new release (0.98.2 for real or 0.98.3)?

2008-07-18 Thread Darren Dale
On Friday 18 July 2008 11:14:00 am John Hunter wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Gael Varoquaux What about checking to see if your ipython module is in sys.modules when pyplot is imported, checking the backend, and then importing it, checking for wthread etc, issuing a severe warning

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Any short plan for a new release (0.98.2 for real or 0.98.3)?

2008-07-18 Thread John Hunter
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Jeff Whitaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to see griddata functionality and Ryan May's wind barb patch in 0.98.3. OK things seem to be moving pretty fast right now on several fronts, so we may want to wait until mid next week before pushing anything out.

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Any short plan for a new release (0.98.2 for real or 0.98.3)?

2008-07-18 Thread John Hunter
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Jeff Whitaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John: I concur with your plan. The triangulation algorithm used in the natgrid package is quite bulletproof. Unfortunately, it's GPL and I haven't been able to get NCAR to change the license. I checked Shewchuk's web

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Any short plan for a new release (0.98.2 for real or 0.98.3)?

2008-07-18 Thread Robert Kern
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:01, John Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Jeff Whitaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John: I concur with your plan. The triangulation algorithm used in the natgrid package is quite bulletproof. Unfortunately, it's GPL and I haven't

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Any short plan for a new release (0.98.2 for real or 0.98.3)?

2008-07-18 Thread John Hunter
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Jeff Whitaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you think? If it's OK I say we use the natgrid package in matplotlib, since it's more bulletproof than the scikits package (it passes Robert's degenerate triangulation test, and has been pounded on by user of

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Any short plan for a new release (0.98.2 for real or 0.98.3)?

2008-07-18 Thread Jeff Whitaker
John Hunter wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Jeff Whitaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you think? If it's OK I say we use the natgrid package in matplotlib, since it's more bulletproof than the scikits package (it passes Robert's degenerate triangulation test, and has been

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Any short plan for a new release (0.98.2 for real or 0.98.3)?

2008-07-18 Thread Ryan May
John Hunter wrote: And we can hold for Ryan's wind barbs too -- it looks like Eric is on the case. It's at the top of my list ATM. I've let this afternoon get away from me, but I have literally *nothing* to do tomorrow and Sunday, so expect a patch this weekend. (Let's hope I haven't

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Any short plan for a new release (0.98.2 for real or 0.98.3)?

2008-07-18 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 07:57:25PM +0200, Gael Varoquaux wrote: OK, now what is the way forward. We need to provide the advanced-user for a good control on the backend. We need to provide a way that simply works without changing anything. The same code should run in ipython -pylab, idle, or

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Any short plan for a new release (0.98.2 for real or 0.98.3)?

2008-07-17 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hi All, I'd like to resubmit the request below: any new version to be released soon? in the process to generate the doc in Debian, something got fixed upstream, so a new release would be really helpful to have 0.98.2+ in Debian (current 0.98.2 can't be uploaded due to a file with strange chars in

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Any short plan for a new release (0.98.2 for real or 0.98.3)?

2008-07-17 Thread John Hunter
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Sandro Tosi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'd like to resubmit the request below: any new version to be released soon? in the process to generate the doc in Debian, something got fixed upstream, so a new release would be really helpful to have 0.98.2+ in

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Any short plan for a new release (0.98.2 for real or 0.98.3)?

2008-07-17 Thread Andrew Straw
John Hunter wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Sandro Tosi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'd like to resubmit the request below: any new version to be released soon? in the process to generate the doc in Debian, something got fixed upstream, so a new release would be really

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Any short plan for a new release (0.98.2 for real or 0.98.3)?

2008-07-17 Thread Andrew Straw
Michael Droettboom wrote: Should be fixed in r5775. It seems Agg doesn't like MOVETO commands and the end of a path. Since the update is in a C++ header file, you will need to force a full rebuild (by removing your build directory, for instance.) Thanks, I tested and this fixes the issue

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Any short plan for a new release (0.98.2 for real or 0.98.3)?

2008-07-17 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 08:55:59AM -0500, John Hunter wrote: I think we could do a 0.98.3 release. I am right now implementing a wx frontend to ipython, and I can see in the near future a score of people complaining that from pylab import *; show() crashes it because it calls the wrong

[matplotlib-devel] Any short plan for a new release (0.98.2 for real or 0.98.3)?

2008-07-02 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hi guys, in Debian we finally find a nice way to let the documentation be compiled at package build-time so we are ready for a real new release of matplotlib (more that the source-only you kindly provided me last week), so when you're ready :) For sure, I won't upload a new one in the next