plots in docs

[Ralf Gommers]

2009/10/14 Stéfan van der Walt <stefan at sun.ac.za>

>
> 2009/10/14 Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at googlemail.com>:
> > I was fighting with the MPL plot_directive for a while, then with the
> > numpydoc version, because I did not want to copy the whole extension into
> > the source tree. But now I see your changes that does seem like the best
> way
> > to go after all.
>
> I tried the matplotlib version this morning, and when it didn't work
> out of the box tried to hack it into a better shape.  I was very
> surprised to see that the quality of code in that extension
> deteriorated since we grabbed it for numpy!  It's almost like the
> numpy one was written by an entirely different person (I wonder how
> much Pauli modded it).  Either way, I think it's good to have a
> snapshot for our own purposed that does what we require (e.g., the
> extra file copy).  Sometime in the future we'll look at matplotlib's
> extension again.
>

Sorry I should have mentioned that more clearly. I think Pauli did a lot of
work on it. He also packaged it separately, so you can do:

easy_install numpydoc

which is how I got it to work. But you're right, having a snapshot is easier
still.

Cheers,
Ralf


>
> Cheers
> Stéfan
>
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