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Hi David,
Following your announcement for the 'toydist' module, I think that
your project is very promising: this is certainly a great idea and it
will be very controversial but that's because people expectactions are
great on this matter (distutils is so disappointing indeed).
Anyway, if I may be useful, I'll gladly contribute to it.
In time, I could change the whole Python(x,y) packaging system (which
is currently quite ugly... but easy/quick to manage/maintain) to
use/promote this new module.
Happy New Year!
and Long Live Scientific Python! ;-)
Cheers,
Pierre

2009年12月31日 Fernando Perez <fpe...@gm...>:
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 4:54 AM, Darren Dale <dsd...@gm...> wrote:
>> I have been resistant to committing this patch because (in my opinion)
>> mpl should not have to provide workarounds for bugs in package X on OS
>> Y, distribution Z. I think this particular issue was fixed when
>> PyQt4-4.6.2 was released. But its time to get practical, I suppose.
>> The patch looks fine, I just checked it into the trunk.
>
> Thanks! As the zen goes, practicality beats purity :) I understand
> your reluctance though, it's annoying to pepper mpl's code with this
> kind of junk.
>
> Happy New Year!
>
> f
>
I completely agree. If developers were all doing their "job" in time,
this should not be necessary and Darren's position would be perfectly
right and justified. However, especially on certain open-source
libraries, things are not moving as fast as they should. For example,
in Spyder I had to re-implement a console-oriented text editor widget
with Scintilla-like features because QScintilla's widget had a
performance issue with very long lines (which is almost undectectable
when using it as a simple text editor but it may slow down display
when using it as a console widget). This bug was fixed just a few days
after being reported but there has been no release since then (August
2009). So, to make it work, I had to do this big workaround until the
next release of QScintilla has spread on every platform (i.e. not
until a year I guess). In terms of code refactoring (or purity...),
this was not very satisfying but now Spyder works perfectly because I
stopped saying "it's not my fault, it's QScintilla's".
So even if I agree with Darren on the fact that libraries such as
matplotlib should not provide this kind of workaround, I also think
that -at some point- one has to get practical indeed!
Happy new year guys!
Cheers,
Pierre