On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Christoph Gohlke <cgoh...@uci.edu> wrote: > On 10/3/2012 9:20 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: >> I invite comments for a new MEP about improving the situation with >> respect to our bundling of third-party Python dependencies. >> >> In particular, I'd love feedback from the various stakeholders -- those >> producing binary installers and packages for the various platforms. >> >> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/wiki/MEP11 >> >> Mike
> I think that matplotlib, the library, should not attempt to work around > Python's distribution/packaging limitations. Please do not use > post-install or run-time scripts to detect and install missing > dependencies. I whole-heartedly agree here. There are package managers for this job. I understand there are people less package-literate and, as you point out below, the development team for each separate dependency can ship a binary. Though I understand not all do this. > Optionally, for Windows users that won't touch pip or easy_install (like > me), matplotlib could provide separate downloads of installers for > dateutil, pytz, pyparsing, and six. They are trivial to create. > Also consider a separate package for the matplotlib tests, which would > include 35 MB of baseline images that are of little use to end users. I agree here, too. I think most people who want to use the library won't ever run or touch the tests. Heck, I only ever ran the tests after I started contributing back to the community. Perhaps they should be spawn off to a matplotlib-tests git submodule that Travis can use for commit-checking. -- Damon McDougall http://www.damon-is-a-geek.com B2.39 Mathematics Institute University of Warwick Coventry West Midlands CV4 7AL United Kingdom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
