I have a few questions and comments about the Mac binary of matplotlib 0.98.3: matplotlib-0.98.3-py2.5-macosx-10.3.egg.zip A few things struck me as scary: - There are no instructions; when you unzip it you get just an egg and that's it. I was able to find the magic incantation on the web, and fortunately I already have easy_install installed. But it would be a big help to have a ReadMe that tells how to install easy_install and how to use it to install the egg.
- The zipped egg includes dateutil and pytz. But I already have those installed (both due to using older matplotlib and because I use dateutil in my own code), so now I have two sets in different locations. This is worrisome. Which one will get used? Does it matter if I import dateutil first or matplotlib first? (I deleted the versions in the matplotlib egg to remove doubt.) I thought easy_install could handle dependencies (and indeed, per the next item, it seemed to be trying to do so). If so, couldn't it only install them if not already present? - When I ran easy_install it started searching the web and installing stuff. But what was it downloading and installing? The messages were very vague. I already had dateutil and pytz, so did the egg, so it would be crazy for it to download those. But what in the world else could it possibly need? Surely the freetype and png are already statically linked in (or perhaps it's using Apple's freetype). Surely it doesn't want to download those as libraries and install them? Surely it would not install wxpython, since that is optional? I do appreciate the effort that goes into producing these binaries. (I used to make a matplotlib package installer for pythonmac.org and was glad to give it up.) And the results do seem to work. -- Russell ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
