Matthew R. Becker

These might be useful diagnostics. cc @esheldon

Replace using sys.exit with higher level error/logic handling, e.g. custom exception

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### What is the idea? We here at conda-forge use some of the conda build APIs for our work. The code has been getting an increasing number of `sys.exit` calls...

It might be useful to use the unpatched repodata for checking packages exist. We would have to pull the labels by hand.

cut a release

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Can you cut a new release with the update database info?

There appear to be new python 3 related forking warnings on osx. I can post a copy if you all are interested in fixing.

This output is garbled in osx terminals.

expand support to new/multiple backends

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plotutils does not seem to be actively maintained at the moment. Thus I think we should try and allow for plotting with a different backend. @esheldon suggested Cairo (http://cairographics.org/).