On 11/13/06, Russell E. Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Russell E. Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've been trying to build a proper matplotlib Mac binary with bdist_mpkg > > (from the command line) and thought I finally had it until I realized > > it was missing pytz. Any hints on how to get this included? > > > > FYI: in the resulting package there is a directory > > matplotlib-0.87.7-py2.5.egg-info > > In the files in that directory, pytz is listed in > > SOURCES.txt > > but not in > > top_level.txt > > and the pytz source is missing from the package. > > Sorry to follow up my own posting, but I found one way to do it: > > modify matplotlib's setup.py file to always install dateutil and pytz. > It turns out normally only installs them if a version doesn't already > exist. > > This points up a weakness in trying to package matplotlib: the naive > installer will always overwrite dateutil and pytz. I suppose a script > could be written that will only install them if not present, or if newer > or...something. I'm not likely to bother.
docutils does (or at least it did) something similarly stupid. > Perhaps this is a case for installing matplotlib using easy_install > instead. However, compiling matplotlib takes a very long time on some > machines (such as my G4 laptop). Is that relevant? People (that have an iota of Terminal skills) can install binary eggs just as easily as than they can install binary .mpkg distributions. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
