[Python-de] John Hunter (1968-2012) #Matplotlib

[Dinu Gherman]

Hallo zusammen,

ich habe neulich über die Ankündigung unten zu Matplotlib 1.2.0 erfahren, 
dass dessen Hauptmaintainer, John Hunter, vor kurzem unter unglücklichen 
Umständen verstorben ist. Da es nicht zuletzt auch eine viel benutzte und
beliebte Software ist, dachte ich, das wäre einen Hinweis und/oder Aufruf 
an dieser Stelle zur Beteiligung an dem für seine drei Töchter eingerich-
teten Hilfsfond wert. Weitere Infos sind den folgenden Links zu entnehmen:

http://matplotlib.org
http://numfocus.org/johnhunter/

Ob der PySV oder die PSF irgendetwas in dieser Richtung unternehmen ent-
zieht sich meiner Kenntnis. 

Gruß

Dinu


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> Von: Michael Droettboom <mdroe at stsci.edu>
> Datum: 9. November 2012 14:54:56 MEZ
> An: <python-announce-list at python.org>
> Betreff: ANN: matplotlib 1.2.0
> Antwort an: python-list at python.org
> 
> After months of hard work by a veritable army of contributors, I'm pleased to announce the release of matplotlib 1.2.0.
> 
> This is the first time we've released without the assistance of John Hunter, who is sorely missed.  I hope this is at least a small way to say thanks for all of his great work.
> 
> Release tarballs and binaries are available on github.  (They are no longer being made available on SourceForge).
> 
> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/downloads
> 
> This is the first release to support Python 3.x (and as a result drops support for Pythons earlier than 2.6).  There is new support for outputting PGF/TikZ files.  New plot types include 3D trisurface plots, and streamplots.  Tripcolor, boxplot, colorbars and contour plots have all grown new features.  And under the hood, numerous improvements in stability, flexibility and robustness.  For a complete list, see the "what's new" page:
> 
> http://matplotlib.org/users/whats_new.html
> 
> For an even more detailed list of 698 issues (!) resolved since the last release, see the github statistics page:
> 
> http://matplotlib.org/users/github_stats.html
> 
> Enjoy!  As always, there are number of good ways to get help with matplotlib listed on the homepage at http://matplotlib.org/ and I thank everyone for their continued support of this project.
> 
> Mike Droettboom
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