BUG : fixes FontProperties memory leak

According to the data
model (https://docs.python.org/2/reference/datamodel.html#object.__hash__)
objects that define __hash__ need to define __eq__ or __cmp__.  By
default, all user defined classes have a __cmp__ which evaluates to
False for all other objects.

Previously we do not define either __cmp__ or __eq__ on FontProperties,

This results in never finding the property
cached in the dict, hence the growth in the number of
FontProperties (and I assume the stuff in them).

By adding __eq__ and __ne__ we complete the data model and adding
FontProperties to dictionaries should work as expected.

This was not a problem before, but in #3077 the caching key was changed
from hash(prop) -> prop.

Closes #3264
Merge pull request #3250 from cgohlke/patch-2

Fix WindowsError: [Error 32] The process cannot access the file
TST: Fix ImportError: No module named 'mpl_toolkits'

Apparently `imp.find_module` does not support namespace packages.
Fixes issue #3252.
Merge pull request #3275 from cgohlke/patch-5

TST: Fix ImportError: No module named 'mpl_toolkits'
Merge pull request #3274 from tacaswell/fix_fontprop_leak

BUG : fixes FontProperties memory leak
DOC : removed out-dated git advices

It is a bad idea to all push directly to the same repo/branch, that
way lies madness/cvs

closes #3280
Merge pull request #3235 from jenshnielsen/more_warnings

Silence some more warnings
Merge pull request #3235 from jenshnielsen/more_warnings

Silence some more warnings
Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/v1.4.x'
Change num lines to int in hatch.

Fixes numpy issues warnings
Index with an integer in test_axes
Number of verts in simplification is an int

Fixes numpy warnings in indexing
Explicite cast to int in colors
Cast steps to integer in cbook
Cast to integer in bezier for indexing
Cast to integer in contour

as suggested by comment
Integer division in mlab test
Integer division in trirefine
Filter warnings in rcparams test.
Suppress some more warnings.

These are genuine too so we filter them