Re: [matplotlib-devel] Transforms branch

On Monday 29 October 2007 03:29:17 pm Michael Droettboom wrote:
> As some of you probably know, I've been working on a fairly major
> refactoring of matplotlib.  It's now getting to the point where I think
> more people may want to check it out and kick the tires.  It is
> definitely not ready for real work -- I guarantee the first thing you
> try will break ;)
>
> However, it is passing the vast majority of examples in examples/ (with
> some major exceptions).  The only working backends are Agg and all
> Agg-based GUIs, PS, PDF and SVG.  Any 3D plotting has not even been
> attempted, and I'm certain is broken.  There's a very good chance that
> external tools like basemap will not work at all.  If you care about any
> of these missing things, you may not want to try the branch yet, or
> better yet, you may want to check out the branch and get those things
> working ;)  Or, please let me know if the changes make any of those
> things much harder to do, so the design can be refined while we still
> have the chance ;)
>
> There are more details about the changes in CHANGELOG and API_CHANGES.
> PASSED_DEMOS contains my own notes about what is currently working.
>
> The SVN URL is:
>
>
> https://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/matplotlib/branches/transfor
>ms

I'm looking forward to trying it out.

Maybe we can consider switching to the traited config package after the 
potential merge. I have been running with it for quite a long time, and 
haven't had any issues. Now that traits can be installed without any 
additional dependencies, and enthought has been working on playing well with 
debs and rpms, we could consider making traits an external dependency. I 
think it should be external, because that will make it easier to generate 
default config files at compile time. We could also benefit from a 
reorganization of the src directory tree, one that would not touch the actual 
api. I think I will have some free evenings and weekends for these projects 
starting Dec 4.

Darren