On 08/31/2011 11:21 PM, Eric Firing wrote: > On 08/31/2011 01:59 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Craig Finch<cfi...@ieee.org >> <mailto:cfi...@ieee.org>> wrote: >> >> I figured it out! I accidentally did something weird. When I built >> NumPy and SciPy, I used the --user option to tell distutils to build >> them in my home directory. I had not realized that --user installs >> the packages in ~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/. I was >> assuming they would be installed in ~/lib/python2.7/site-packages, >> but I didn't notice they were "missing" until just now. When I >> reinstalled NumPy and Scipy using the option --prefix=/home/cfinch >> and then rebuilt matplotlib, everything started working. I didn't >> have to rebuild pycairo or pygtk; I just had to get everything in >> the same location. This is the first I've heard of installing >> anything in a .local directory...why is that even an option??? >> >> Thanks for your help! >> >> >> It is a standard directory in linux now. Started by the freedesktop.org >> <http://freedesktop.org>, I think. Personally, I prefer it over having >> ~/lib, ~/bin and such cluttering my home directory. >> >> http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html > Aha! So that's where .config came from, also. IPython is using it; I > suppose we should, too.
I've created a github issue to discuss and/or implement this here: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/454 Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
