On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Russell Owen <ro...@uw.edu> wrote: > I would be happy to make the Mac binary builds for matplotlib (at least the > ones I know how to make -- for python.org 32-bit). > > I personally suggest not building Mac eggs -- at least until easy_install > gets really cleaned up. Right now it tends to try to download stuff it has no > business downloading and it doesn't check for compatibility. The binary > installer is much safer. But if you insist and have easy instructions I will > do it. >
I won't insist -- I have personally found eggs are more trouble than their worth. Others may ask for them, so we can deal with this on as as needed basis. > I suspect I didn't fully answer your question, but I'm not sure what else you > want to know so I'll ask you to rephrase any remaining issues. > You answered my two questions: should we build eggs (no) and will you do the builds (yes). Perfect. > I'm a bit worried about what will happen when I eventually upgrade my work > computer to 10.6 (it's our last remaining 10.5 machine at the moment). But > since I have ready access to 10.6 computers I should see if I can do a > working build on 10.6 with the binaries I already created on 10.5. (That is > likely to work, and may save a lot of trouble -- at least until those > versions of libfreetype, etc. get old enough to need upgrading). I don't see > myself going to 64-bit for a long time since I have to keep my work machine > as compatible as possible. > If need be, perhaps I can do the 10.6 64 bit binaries on the sage machine. I just need to figure out the apple python vs python.org python problem on that platform. > It is very exciting to hear that matplotlib 1.0 is so close. Yep -- long time coming :-) Thanks for your help, JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
