It's been 4 months since I last sent out an matplotlib release announcement to the wider python community, in part because the pace of development has been rapid and there has always been one more pressing feature or bug to fix. The last general release was 0.50 and a quick look over the what's new page shows since then we've added numerix, freetype, mathtext, tkagg, gtkagg, svg, images, finance module, matplotlibrc, date plots, minor ticks, font manager, and a number of optimizations, plot commands an bug fixes. Since the last release 0.53 has gone through a few bug fix iterations without any major new features, it appears pretty stable to me and so it seems like a good time to do a 0.60 release to python list, scypi, etc, early next week. Any pressing issues that you folks are aware of that should be addressed before then?
Opps, premature email release. I wanted to add one more point vis-a-vis 0.60. Vittorio, would you like to build the debian package before I do the release, so it will be ready for debian users when I send the announcement? If so, how much advance notice do you need? If I sent you a snapshot Monday would you be ready by Tuesday? Thanks! JDH
>>>>> "Vittorio" == Vittorio Palmisano <re...@em...> writes: >> Vittorio, would you like to build the debian package before I >> do the release, so it will be ready for debian users when I >> send the announcement? If so, how much advance notice do you >> need? If I sent you a snapshot Monday would you be ready by >> Tuesday? Vittorio> Sorry, I can work on this release only next Friday... In light of this and the pending figure image and/or font stuff, I decided to hold off and do this release next week. Perry, if you want to check in your figure image stuff by Thursday, that leaves enough time to run it through the test suite before I make the sdist for Vittorio and Todd late Thursday. They can do their respective builds and I'll send out an announcement next Monday. Cheers, JDH