[sympy] replace distutils with setuptools

2008-06-01 Thread Vinzent Steinberg
Sympy has some installation problems. 1. Depenencies. Sympy depends on pyglet and mpmath and they are thus included in a separate thirdparty directory. This has some drawbacks: Other programs than sympy can't use them and it ignores existing installations of these modules. Furthermore it's

[sympy] Re: replace distutils with setuptools

2008-06-01 Thread Vinzent Steinberg
BTW: It already works for sympy: # easy_install --upgrade sympy Searching for sympy Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/sympy/ Reading http://code.google.com/p/sympy Best match: sympy 0.5.15 Downloading http://sympy.googlecode.com/files/sympy-0.5.15.tar.gz Processing sympy-0.5.15.tar.gz

[sympy] Re: replace distutils with setuptools

2008-06-01 Thread Brian Jorgensen
Hi, It's been a while, but I'm the one who committed the original sin of including pyglet. In general, I agree with you. The intent back then was to allow users to plot out-of-the-box, without any external dependencies. I've since come to believe that our users are generally python programmers