Re: RFS: matplotlib 0.90.1-3
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Eike Nicklas <eike@ephys.de> wrote:
> Hi Ondrej et al.,
>
>
> >
> > Yes, I read that bug. There are more problems with matplotlib - it is
> > not lintian clean,
> > it still uses Numerics and numarray besides numpy (I don't know if
> > this is a feature or a bug),
> >
>
> I think upstream deprecated Numerics and numarray and the latest
> version only uses numpy.
>
> Changelog excerpts:
>
> 2007-06-01 Deprecate Numeric and numarray for use as numerix.
> 2007-06-02 Released 0.90.1 at revision 3352
> 2007-06-07 Disable build of numarray and Numeric extensions for
> internal MPL use and the numerix layer.
> 2007-07-19 replaced the Python code in numerix/ by a minimal wrapper
> around numpy that explicitly mentions all symbols that need
> to be addressed for further numpification
> [...]
> and only numpy is mentioned in the current README.
>
> Anyway, as a matplotlib user, I am happy that you want to fix the
> current issues, but sadly I currently don't have the time to help with
> that.
It shouldn't be a big problem and I'll do it, as I also use and need it. We
are actually only waiting for an approval from the matplotlib maintainers.
Ondrej
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