Re: legend and bar?

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On  5-Nov-2007, David Bateman wrote:
>
> | John W. Eaton wrote:
> | > On  5-Nov-2007, David Bateman wrote:
> | >
> | > | though it probably
> | > | makes more sense to just bite the bullet and implement the bar series
> | > | objects in a matlab compatible way.
> | >
> | > Can this wait until after 3.0?
> | >
> | > jwe
> | >
> | >   
> | Sure, the downside is that legends won't work for bar plots.. A quick
> | workaround that might have future compatibility problems might be to add
> | a "KeyLabel" field to the patch/surface objects and adjust legend.m to
> | take these into account. So which of the three solutions do you want
> | 
> | 1) Ignore it
> | 2) Add KeyLabel field to patch/surface
> | 3) Add BarSeries objects
>
> I think I'd prefer to have 3 eventually, but we have to draw the line
> somewhere and release 3.0.  We could go on for years (as we have
> already) fixing the N remaining compatibility problems.  There is no
> way for 3.0 to be perfect and fix everything, so I guess I'm just
> asking whether this is important enough to delay the release by
> another month (or more, since if we fix this problem, why not fix
> others?).
>
> jwe
>   

I'd probably say forgot and go with case 1) in that case as 2) might
introduce compatibility problems later that we might like to avoid..

D.

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