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On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Reinier Heeres <re...@he...> wrote:

>
> That sounds good. I assume you mean adding it to lib/mpl_toolkits in
> the matplotlib source? It would be great to do this soon.
>
> I also tried to create a separate mpl_toolkit installer with
> setuptools, but can't get that to work properly:
>
> In [2]: import mpl_toolkits.mplot3d
> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mpl_toolkits/__init__.py:2:
> UserWarning: Module mpl_toolkits was already imported from
> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mpl_toolkits/__init__.pyc, but
> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mplot3d-0.1-py2.5.egg is being added
> to sys.path
>  __import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)
>
> This can probably be fixed, but I would prefer things to live in the
> matplotlib tree, and I'm willing to volunteer to support it.
>


Since this is pure python, my plan was to put it in the mpl source tree in
mpl_toolkits so that it gets included in  all mpl installs, rather than
distribute it separately.  This might put some additional burden on you
since we still use svn, but we have some notes on developing mpl via git
with a git/svn gateway

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/devel/coding_guide.html#id3

Have you done any work on bringing it up to compatibility with svn HEAD?
I'd like at least the basic demos to work with svn HEAD before I do the
import.  I think the major missing piece there is the missing TextWithDash.

Thanks,
JDH

Hi,

I think that except for contourf3D everything is functioning fine
again, so I'm thinking about packaging/distributing it. (I will try to
fix contourf3D as well when I can find some time)

2009/3/3 John Hunter <jd...@gm...>:
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Jonathan Taylor
> <jon...@ut...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I saw that 3D plotting was dropped from matplotlib since the last time
>> I used it.  Unfortunately, it is pretty necessary for some of the work
>> I am doing.  Thus, I have started the process of refactoring the code
>> to work with recent versions of matplotlib.
>>
>> Right now, it is still in very early stages and is quite flaky but I
>> do have some functionality.  In particular, I am able to do a regular
>> 3d plot, a wireframe plot and a scatter plot.  If this interests
>> anyone I am making the code available via git.  Instructions are
>> available on my website at:
>
> That's great -- a number of people were very disappointed to see the
> functionality removed, even though it was primitive compared to a good 3D
> toolkit.  The problem was, we could never find a core developer who was
> interested in taking it under his wing.  Once you get this to a satisfactory
> point, I suggest you develop it as an mpl toolkit.  That way, it will get
> installed with every mpl distro (the plain vanilla toolkits we ship, the
> complex ones like basemap are distributed separately) but without the
> implicit promise of full support until someone is willing to step up and
> offer to fully support it.
>
> JDH
>

That sounds good. I assume you mean adding it to lib/mpl_toolkits in
the matplotlib source? It would be great to do this soon.

I also tried to create a separate mpl_toolkit installer with
setuptools, but can't get that to work properly:

In [2]: import mpl_toolkits.mplot3d
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mpl_toolkits/__init__.py:2:
UserWarning: Module mpl_toolkits was already imported from
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mpl_toolkits/__init__.pyc, but
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mplot3d-0.1-py2.5.egg is being added
to sys.path
  __import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)

This can probably be fixed, but I would prefer things to live in the
matplotlib tree, and I'm willing to volunteer to support it.

Cheers,
-- 
Reinier Heeres
Waalstraat 17
2515 XK Den Haag
The Netherlands

Tel: +31 6 10852639