Mailman 3 December 2015 - Matplotlib-devel

article on scales
by Thomas Caswell Jan. 2, 2016

Jan. 2, 2016

There has been some discussion about how to generalize/unify the mixture of scaling functionality in mpl (axes scales, color.norm, and the units framework). Mike Bostock has pulled the scale functionality out of d3 [1], we might want to take a look at that for API inspiration (also scroll to the bottom of the post and note what color maps he uses as demo :) ). Tom [1] https://medium.com/@mbostock/introducing-d3-scale-61980c51545f

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v2.x branch
by Thomas Caswell Dec. 19, 2015

Dec. 19, 2015

Hey folks, Due to a mistake in merging the master branch accidentally was merged into v2.0.x. The v2.0.x branch has been deleted on matplotlib/matplotlib (but there is reference to it on tacaswell/matplotlib at it's last state). The new branch for v2.0 development is v2.x. A new branch name is being used to remove the master branch commits from the v2.0 release branch without a rebase on upstream. Tom

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mpl 1.5.1?
by Thomas Caswell Dec. 17, 2015

Dec. 17, 2015

Hey folks, We have accumulated a number of important bug fixes on the 1.5.x branch, (soon including https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/5690 which fixes a segfault when using pyside) so we should strongly consider doing a 1.5.1 release. I do not think we need to do a rc cycle given the low-risk and so we can get this out inside of the 2.0 mike-finds-all-the-rabbit-holes development cycle. Tom

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matplotlib.org DNS
by Michael Droettboom Dec. 9, 2015

Dec. 9, 2015

There was a glitch in our recent transfer of the matplotlib.org domain such that our DNS went down for some portion of yesterday and today. It should be resolved now, but it may be some time until the records propagate back out to everyone. Apologies for the inconvenience. Mike -- Michael Droettboom Continuum Analytics

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TkAgg compilation
by Federico Beffa Dec. 2, 2015

Dec. 2, 2015

Hi, I've packaged matplotlib for the Guix functional package manager (http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/) which compiles software in isolated environments. The 'setup.py' program fails to detect the location and version of the Tlc/Tk libraries required to build the 'TkAgg' backend. Looking into the problem I have the impression that the detection method is a little bit out of date. Tcl/Tk ships with 'pkg-config' .pc files and it would probably be more robust to use this approach (as used to detect other libraries). The attached patch does this and fixes the problem for us. Regards, Fede

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