On Monday 29 October 2007 03:29:17 pm Michael Droettboom wrote: > As some of you probably know, I've been working on a fairly major > refactoring of matplotlib. It's now getting to the point where I think > more people may want to check it out and kick the tires. It is > definitely not ready for real work -- I guarantee the first thing you > try will break ;) The first thing I tried was to enable the new config package and run backend_driver. I'm impressed, I saw only one error that doesnt occur in the trunk: driving mri_with_eeg.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "_tmp_mri_with_eeg.py", line 13, in <module> from matplotlib.transforms import get_bbox_transform, Point, Value, Bbox,\ ImportError: cannot import name get_bbox_transform backend_driver was a little slow to run on the transforms branch: Backend Agg took 2.94 minutes to complete template ratio 1.527, template residual 1.015 Backend PS took 1.80 minutes to complete template ratio 0.933, template residual -0.129 Backend Template took 1.92 minutes to complete template ratio 1.000, template residual 0.000 Backend PDF took 2.17 minutes to complete template ratio 1.129, template residual 0.248 Backend SVG took 2.08 minutes to complete template ratio 1.082, template residual 0.158 as compared to the trunk: Backend Agg took 1.53 minutes to complete template ratio 1.628, template residual 0.589 Backend PS took 1.34 minutes to complete template ratio 1.426, template residual 0.399 Backend Template took 0.94 minutes to complete template ratio 1.000, template residual 0.000 Backend PDF took 1.62 minutes to complete template ratio 1.726, template residual 0.680 Backend SVG took 1.45 minutes to complete template ratio 1.548, template residual 0.514 > However, it is passing the vast majority of examples in examples/ (with > some major exceptions). The only working backends are Agg and all > Agg-based GUIs, PS, PDF and SVG. Any 3D plotting has not even been > attempted, and I'm certain is broken. There's a very good chance that > external tools like basemap will not work at all. If you care about any > of these missing things, you may not want to try the branch yet, or > better yet, you may want to check out the branch and get those things > working ;) Or, please let me know if the changes make any of those > things much harder to do, so the design can be refined while we still > have the chance ;)