[Tutor] In matplotlib, why are there axes classes vs. axes API? Why not list them under one documentation?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 12:35:36PM -0400, C W wrote:

> Why haven't the developers fixed the problem?

matplotlib is free, open source software. If volunteers don't "fix the 
problem", who is paying for the work to be done?

Are you volunteering?

Or willing to pay somebody to do the work? $30,000 - $50,000 would 
probably pay for one developer to work on mathplotlib full time for 
three months.

Or maybe the developers don't think it is a problem that needs fixing. 
Maybe they're happy with it the way it is.

Or they don't like it any more than you do, but they are constrained by 
the need to keep backwards compatibility.


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Steve