Re: [matplotlib-devel] os x egg fubar?

2008-12-16 Thread Christopher Barker
Charlie Moad wrote: Most people get a successful install, but then setuptools tries to go out and grab the source anyways. I can't say that I know a good solution for osx. This may be moot due to what John H. has done, but I thought all you need to do to stop setuptools from going and

Re: [matplotlib-devel] os x egg fubar?

2008-12-15 Thread Chris.Barker
John Hunter wrote: I think the src egg approach for os x is hopeless because too many people are having problems with architecture on png and zlib dependencies, and we don't have a lot of control over this because they are getting these dependencies from a variety of providers. Maybe it's

Re: [matplotlib-devel] os x egg fubar?

2008-12-14 Thread Charlie Moad
This build should be the same as all the previous. I do them as I documented on the ipython pages. bdist_mpkg has been flat broke the times I have tried it. bdist_egg seems pretty helpless too due to setuptools lack of understanding of osx architectures. Most people get a successful

Re: [matplotlib-devel] os x egg fubar?

2008-12-14 Thread John Hunter
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 3:24 PM, John Hunter jdh2...@gmail.com wrote: I think the src egg approach for os x is hopeless because too many people are having problems with architecture on png and zlib dependencies, and we don't have a lot of control over this because they are getting these

[matplotlib-devel] os x egg fubar?

2008-12-13 Thread John Hunter
Because several people are reporting problems with the OS X egg, I grabbed matplotlib-0.98.5-py2.5-macosx-10.3.egg from sourceforge and unzipped it to see what was in there. It seems to contain no of the extension code and no object files. What exactly is this thing? I am no egg expert, but I

Re: [matplotlib-devel] os x egg fubar?

2008-12-13 Thread John Hunter
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 3:24 PM, John Hunter jdh2...@gmail.com wrote: Because several people are reporting problems with the OS X egg, I grabbed matplotlib-0.98.5-py2.5-macosx-10.3.egg from sourceforge and unzipped it to see what was in there. It seems to contain no of the extension code and