Re: [matplotlib-devel] breakage

Darren Dale wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> On Thursday 19 July 2007 02:10:03 pm Eric Firing wrote:
>> unless John or someone else
>> contradicts me I request that you restore the original numerix, or
>> something like it, so that users' external code can still use numerix to
>> deal with Numeric and/or numarray code and arrays.
> 
> I thought we were dropping support for numeric and numarray in numerix, 
> starting with 0.91?

Not quite.  I think the idea was to use numpy internally, but to let the 
numerix layer stay as it is so that users' code built on numerix can 
still work with other array packages.  When that code calls mpl, 
everything should still work; the other arrays will internally be 
converted to numpy.

The point is that although users will have to *have* numpy, they will 
not yet have to convert all their other packages to numpy; if they have 
extension packages built on numarray, for example, and accessed via code 
using matplotlib.numerix, everything will still work.

Eric