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On 8/21/10 12:08 PM, Eric Firing wrote:
> Mike, John, or anyone else who works directly with Ticks:
>
> I think you are the only ones who have worked with the code I suggest 
> changing as in the attached diff. It looks to me like the three *Tick 
> methods, set_view_interval(), get_minpos(), get_data_interval(), are 
> unused and unlikely ever to have been or to be used. I particularly 
> object to the first of these because I don't think a Tick has any 
> business changing the view interval. The other two look like clutter, 
> harmless except insofar as they make it harder to understand the code. 
> If some projection actually does end up needing the functionality in 
> any of these methods, it is still available via *Tick.axes.xaxis.* etc.
>
> Am I missing something? If not, I will commit this to the trunk. 
> This is a case where I think immediate surgery is better than a 
> deprecation process.
Hi Eric,
In general I'm all for it - simplicity is good. Just make sure that it 
doesn't break the spine placement code (e.g. 
examples/pylab_demo/spine_placement_demo.py ) -- I remember those method 
names from the time when I was working on the spines. I don't remember 
any deep issues, but it's long enough ago now that I don't remember the 
details.
Thanks,
Andrew

Mike, John, or anyone else who works directly with Ticks:
I think you are the only ones who have worked with the code I suggest 
changing as in the attached diff. It looks to me like the three *Tick 
methods, set_view_interval(), get_minpos(), get_data_interval(), are 
unused and unlikely ever to have been or to be used. I particularly 
object to the first of these because I don't think a Tick has any 
business changing the view interval. The other two look like clutter, 
harmless except insofar as they make it harder to understand the code. 
If some projection actually does end up needing the functionality in any 
of these methods, it is still available via *Tick.axes.xaxis.* etc.
Am I missing something? If not, I will commit this to the trunk. This 
is a case where I think immediate surgery is better than a deprecation 
process.
Thanks.
Eric