[Matplotlib-devel] v1.5.0rc2

[Sandro Tosi]

On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 3:43 AM, Thomas Caswell <tcaswell at gmail.com> wrote:
> It is a hard dependency, but it is only a few hundred line python file.

that's ok, I'll get it packaged and will ask to be fast tracked for acceptance.

> If getting it in as a top-level debian package is not possible, it should
> not be too hard to vendor it.
>
> My preference would be if you could handle this as a debian-specific
> vendoring, but if this is really a blocker for debian (at it's down-stream
> ecosystem) we can work something out up upstream.
>
> When we started working on cycler part of the discussion was to split it off
> because down-stream packagers liked to split things up!

hehe, yeah we usually do (even though it sometimes makes our own lives
harder ;) )

thanks for the quick reply!

>
> Tom
>
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 8:02 PM Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hey! I'm working to get this into Debian, so I'd like to understand
>> how strong the dependency against cycler is: is there a way to opt-out
>> from it at the moment? We dont have it already available, and avoiding
>> that dependency will help us the mpl in Debian (which in turn will
>> help Debian migrate to python3.5)
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 12:04 AM, Thomas Caswell <tcaswell at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hey folks,
>> >
>> > I have tagged v1.5.0rc2 and created a v1.5.x branch on upstream.
>> > Hopefully
>> > the new conda packages will be available on `-c conda-forge` within the
>> > next
>> > day or so.
>> >
>> > Please open any new PRs targetted for 1.5.0 against the v1.5.x branch
>> > and
>> > remember to cherry pick the few open PRs for 1.5.0 back to 1.5.x when
>> > you
>> > merge them (or ping me to do it).
>> >
>> > Feel free to begin merging new features into master again.
>> >
>> > In addition to the normal release notes we should plan to also write
>> > several
>> > blog posts for the numfocus blog.  I think it would be good to have a
>> > post
>> > for at least each of
>> >   - property cycling
>> >   - labeled data plotting
>> >   - auto-redraw
>> >   - %matplotlib notebook
>> >   - the new color maps
>> >   - the style module + new style sheets
>> >
>> > Any volunteers to write those?
>> >
>> > Tom
>> >
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
>> My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
>> Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi



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Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi