Re: [matplotlib-devel] building with python-2.3

2007-03-03 Thread Darren Dale
On Saturday 03 March 2007 12:43:53 pm you wrote: > On 2/23/07, Andrew Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2) make our own distutils monkeypatch a la setuptools. Looking at > > setuptools/dist.py, this doesn't look trivial -- certainly beyond my > > free bandwidth capacity. > > This is fine by me -

Re: [matplotlib-devel] building with python-2.3

2007-03-03 Thread John Hunter
On 2/23/07, Andrew Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2) make our own distutils monkeypatch a la setuptools. Looking at > setuptools/dist.py, this doesn't look trivial -- certainly beyond my > free bandwidth capacity. This is fine by me -- I actually was forced to think about this this morning as

Re: [matplotlib-devel] building with python-2.3

2007-02-24 Thread Ken McIvor
On Feb 23, 2007, at 8:00 PM, Andrew Straw wrote: > > 2) make our own distutils monkeypatch a la setuptools. Looking at > setuptools/dist.py, this doesn't look trivial -- certainly beyond my > free bandwidth capacity. I've written a script that attempts to simplify writing setup.py's that include

Re: [matplotlib-devel] building with python-2.3

2007-02-24 Thread Fernando Perez
On 2/24/07, Andrew Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: > > IPython does something similar and possibly better. > > > > > > http://ipython.scipy.org/svn/ipython/ipython/trunk/setupext/install_data_ext.py > > > From a quick look at the code, it's hard to determine whether this

Re: [matplotlib-devel] building with python-2.3

2007-02-24 Thread Andrew Straw
Robert Kern wrote: > Andrew Straw wrote: > >> 1) revert to the old way. The primary issues with this are a) >> "package_data" is supported as standard Python from 2.4 on, and the old >> way required carrying our own distutils command and b) we switched the >> data directory to have a nested stru

Re: [matplotlib-devel] building with python-2.3

2007-02-23 Thread Robert Kern
Andrew Straw wrote: > 2) make our own distutils monkeypatch a la setuptools. Looking at > setuptools/dist.py, this doesn't look trivial -- certainly beyond my > free bandwidth capacity. Actually, it ought to be pretty trivial without setuptools (but compatible with setuptools, AFAICT). Here is

Re: [matplotlib-devel] building with python-2.3

2007-02-23 Thread Eric Firing
Andrew, I agree with your proposal; I think it makes more sense than either alternative. Let's see what John says when he gets back from his vacation. Eric Andrew Straw wrote: > (Picking up this thread a bit late... And I just wrote a longer email > which got munched due to email configuratio

Re: [matplotlib-devel] building with python-2.3

2007-02-23 Thread Andrew Straw
(Picking up this thread a bit late... And I just wrote a longer email which got munched due to email configuration issues...) I'm responsible for the "package_data" keyword being added to setup.py. The bottom line is Python 2.3 is still supported. I simply didn't realize that it would screw thi

Re: [matplotlib-devel] building with python-2.3

2007-02-23 Thread Eric Firing
Darren Dale wrote: > We support setuptools, but we do not require it. So, it sounds like setuptools is required now if one has Python 2.3. If so, is that acceptable--is the gain worth the pain? Is there any significant pain associated with requiring setuptools, at least for people with Python

Re: [matplotlib-devel] building with python-2.3

2007-02-23 Thread Darren Dale
We support setuptools, but we do not require it. On Friday 23 February 2007 5:46:58 am Edin Salkovic wrote: > I'm learning a bit about setuptools and distutils, so sorry if this is > a no brainer: Are we using only distutils for matplotlib? I.e. - no > setuptools? > > This is because I stumbled

Re: [matplotlib-devel] building with python-2.3

2007-02-23 Thread Edin Salkovic
I'm learning a bit about setuptools and distutils, so sorry if this is a no brainer: Are we using only distutils for matplotlib? I.e. - no setuptools? This is because I stumbled across this at the setuptools page: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools Feature Highlights:

Re: [matplotlib-devel] building with python-2.3

2007-02-22 Thread Eric Firing
Darren Dale wrote: > I noticed today that setup.py is using package_data. Is this absolutely > necessary? The most recent version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes > python-2.3, which does not support package_data. We are still supporting > python-2.3, aren't we? Yes, I am sure that is the i