<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Jon,<div><br><div>I thought we were compatible with numpy 1.10 - or did I just forget something we said in the announcement? This does raise a question I've just asked Tom Aldcroft: what is the expectation in the Astronomical Python community about version support for numpy, matplotlib, gcc/gfortran, astropy, ... (we're aiming to improve our Travis-CI build matrix to cover a reasonable set of options).</div><div><br>The master branch of sherpa supports matplotlib 1.5: this release was just to get something out that matched CIAO, so this fix didn't make it into the 4.8.0 code. The plan is to have a 4.8.1 release April-ish, which will have the matplotlib fix in. Or you could just use the master branch and compile from source - the changes in it since 4.8.0 are mainly clean up and improvements to the build/test infrastructure. There is a little-bit of improved functionality or bug fixes, but nothing likely to affect you (although, of course, standard disclaimer about using an unreleased branch). If neither of these are workable, then I'm afraid it is a case of creating an anaconda environment and then using</div><div><br></div><div>% conda install sherpa 'matplotlib < 1.5' astropy ...</div><div><br></div><div>Doug</div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 8:53 AM Slavin, Jonathan <<a href="mailto:jslavin@cfa.harvard.edu">jslavin@cfa.harvard.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi Doug,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I'm happy to hear of the improvements to Sherpa, though I'm disappointed that it's not compatible with matplotlib 1.5 and Numpy 1.10. Do you expect to overcome those incompatibilities soon? I use anaconda, so to use Sherpa at this point, I suppose I'd need to create an environment for it with those different versions of matplotlib and numpy.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Jon</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 7:00 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:astropy-request@scipy.org" target="_blank">astropy-request@scipy.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow:hidden">Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 17:36:26 +0000<br>
From: Doug Burke <<a href="mailto:dburke.gw@gmail.com" target="_blank">dburke.gw@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: <a href="mailto:astropy@scipy.org" target="_blank">astropy@scipy.org</a><br>
Cc: Aneta Siemiginowska <<a href="mailto:anetasie@gmail.com" target="_blank">anetasie@gmail.com</a>><br>
Subject: [AstroPy] ANN: Sherpa v4.8.0 released<br>
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Dear colleagues,<br>
<br>
We are very happy to announce the v4.8.0 release of Sherpa, a Python-based<br>
fitting and modelling system that has strong support for Astronomy data (in<br>
particular, X-ray data). Thanks to Zenodo and GitHub its DOI is<br>
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.45243" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.45243</a><br>
<br>
Sherpa has recently been moved to an open-development model - with<br>
development at <a href="https://github.com/sherpa/sherpa/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/sherpa/sherpa/</a> - and this release is<br>
provided to match the functionality in the CIAO 4.8.0 release.<br>
<br>
Release notes are available at<br>
<a href="https://github.com/sherpa/sherpa/releases/tag/4.8.0" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/sherpa/sherpa/releases/tag/4.8.0</a> and include improved<br>
functionality (e.g. the addition of the "wstat" statistic introduced by<br>
XSPEC for incorporating a background when using Poisson statistics and<br>
improvements to the interface to the XSPEC user models) as well as<br>
improvements to the build and organisation of the module (e.g. improved<br>
docstrings).<br>
<br>
We provide Linux and OS-X packages for users of the Anaconda Python<br>
Distribution,<br>
<br>
$ conda config --add channels <a href="https://conda.binstar.org/sherpa" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://conda.binstar.org/sherpa</a><br>
$ conda install sherpa<br>
<br>
Or source code can be downloaded from <a href="https://github.com/sherpa/sherpa/tags" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/sherpa/sherpa/tags</a><br>
<br>
One known issue with this release (which is fixed in the master branch) is<br>
that it can not be used with version 1.5 of matplotlib. It is, as far as we<br>
know, compatible with recent releases of AstroPy!<br>
<br>
Further information can be found at <a href="http://cxc.harvard.edu/contrib/sherpa/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://cxc.harvard.edu/contrib/sherpa/</a> and<br>
we look forward to any input you have. Please feel free to forward this<br>
announcement to anyone who you feel would be interested in this release.<br>
<br>
For the Sherpa core development team,<br>
Doug Burke</div></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow:hidden"></div></blockquote></div><br><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">________________________________________________________<br>Jonathan D. Slavin Harvard-Smithsonian CfA<br><a href="mailto:jslavin@cfa.harvard.edu" target="_blank">jslavin@cfa.harvard.edu</a> 60 Garden Street, MS 83<br>phone: (617) 496-7981 Cambridge, MA 02138-1516<br>cell: (781) 363-0035 USA<br>________________________________________________________<br><br></div></div></div></div>
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